Pere Aragonès, Sergi Sabrià and Meritxell Serret. All three are profiles of ERC and the Government at the same time that they came out publicly yesterday to reprimand the attitude of the PSOE and Junts in the face of some vagaries in the process of approving the Amnesty law that are laminating the discipline that the Republicans consider that have practiced throughout the negotiation.
The last twist in the Amnesty law occurred on Tuesday, when Junts opposed approving it in order to “strengthen” it even more in the face of the maneuvers of judges Manuel García-Castellón – who accuses the Democratic Tsunami of terrorism and a dozen members of the Committees for the Defense of the Republic (CDR) – and Joaquín Aguirre – who opened the Russian plot of the Voloh case –.
The delay caused by Junts was excessive for those of Oriol Junqueras. On the same day they expressed their complaint, but without drawing blood. It took three days for the Republicans to raise their voice and the deputy councillor, Sergi Sabrià, accused Junts of leaving more than a thousand families “broken” with their refusal of the amnesty.
He was the first to unsheath the sword. Speaking to RTVE, Sabrià reasoned that in the coming weeks or months there will be pro-independence defendants who will have to appear in court to be tried. On April 10, for example, Josep Maria Jové, president of the ERC parliamentary group and former secretary general of the Economy from 2016 to 2017, Lluís Salvadó, president of the port of Barcelona and former secretary of the Treasury, and Natàlia Garriga, councilor of Culture All of them would not have to go to trial if the Amnesty law had been approved on Tuesday, the Catalan leader said.
Sabrià did not stay here. He called it “naïve” that JxCat did not know that “there would be judges who would try to circumvent the law” and criticized that he decided to go back on the approval of the rule when weeks before the post-convergents had announced that amnesty, after of the intervention in Junts’ text, “it was perfect” and that, therefore, they would not present any amendment.
For his part, Aragonès faced the first proposal of the PSOE after the failure of the amnesty in Congress: to leave the opinion of the law intact and fix the gaze on the Penal Code to retouch the crime of terrorism. The president of the Generalitat is not one for stories and rejected, in an interview with Efe, this option and insisted on focusing on the Amnesty law, in which he is willing to make changes, even though he does not think they are necessary.
“The problem is not the crime of terrorism in the Penal Code, the problem is not the content of the Amnesty law. The problem is the arbitrary use that is being made of the judicial inquiry by two judges who are clearly politically aligned with the extreme right and the Spanish right”, he argued.
In the words of Aragonès, in addition, there is a certain fatigue due to the concessions that they believe the PSOE is making with Junts. Something they think doesn’t happen from socialists to republicans. ERC does not feel rewarded despite standing out “as reliable” and adopting a more pragmatic attitude. In any case, Junts sources also assured this newspaper that they rule out reforming the crime of terrorism in the Penal Code. They claim that surrendering to this modification would lead the parties to “adventurism” that “would not lead to anything”.
Serret finished deploying the artillery at a breakfast organized by Nueva Economía Fórum at the Palace Hotel in Barcelona. He tried to make a target in the Voloh case, for which the judge accuses the entourage of Carles Puigdemont. “These days there have been those who have interestedly reactivated the machinery of disinformation, on the part of some judge… I reiterate that the Government of President Aragonès has never been in contact with the Russian Government or its entourage. Neither Russia nor Putin’s entourage have ever been on the list of possible allies or collaborators,” said the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
“Government of Aragon”. Some words with which Serret marked distances between ERC and the Government, on the one hand, and Puigdemont’s environment, on the other, who do consider that they had contact with Russian representatives. Oriol Junqueras and Gabriel Rufián spoke in this regard in March 2022.
