He did not want to present it as a threat but Jordi Turull has understood everything: “If (the PSOE) does not move from here and does not want there to be a comprehensive amnesty law, for everyone, and of immediate application, it is not possible.” wants to comply with the Brussels agreement,” said the secretary general of Junts, alluding to the investiture agreement of Pedro Sánchez, after yesterday his parliamentary group overturned in Congress the Amnesty law as it is drafted and which is now being re-issued. the Justice Commission.
For Turull, the current wording of the law leaves many people out of criminal oblivion, not only Carles Puigdemont and Marta Rovira, and he has listed the causes that are being investigated for terrorism in the National Court by Manuel García-Castellón (Democratic Tsunami and CDR) and the Voloh by the Barcelona judge Joaquín Aguirre. “For two and a half months the judges have been laughing in our faces,” Turull denounced to emphasize that whoever laughs last laughs best.
For this reason, he has insisted that they cannot vote on this text from “resignation.” “We cannot look in the eyes of people accused of delusional stories and tell them that things are like this,” insisted the post-convergent leader, who asked to focus on the solutions and not the problem and recalled that Junts has fulfilled its part of the agreement.
Turull, who sees in the departure of ERC deputy Ruben Wagensberg to Switzerland – investigated in Tsunami – proof that the amnesty “leaves many people behind”, has insisted that if the issue is not resolved in the Justice commission in the coming weeks this “shakes the foundations of the agreement for the resolution of the political conflict”, although he wanted to emphasize that he does not pose it as a threat. However, he has warned that if the amnesty law leaves Congress with “so many cracks, we cannot consider taking a next step,” referring to, for example, the approval of the budgets.
For this reason, Turull has called on the PSOE to “find a draft that is valid for everyone, allows immediate application and has legal basis”, that is, that can pass the filter of the Constitutional Court and European justice.
The Junts leader, who recalled that the basis for resolving the political conflict is that there are no people pending judicial cases, has warned that the judges “have opened waterways with hammer blows” in the amnesty law which, in his opinion , would be good with “normal courts.” Given this circumstance and since “we already know where they are going”, Turull has opted to “reinforce and shield” the text at the points where these “waterways” exist and has shown confidence in the negotiation in the commission. “From greener to riper,” he has indicated in Catalan in an expression that can be translated as “taller towers have fallen.”
Junts’ main criticisms of the current text are the exclusions of terrorism and betrayal of the State that leave many politicians and pro-independence activists out of criminal oblivion and the possibility that some resources, particularly the raising of a prejudicial question to European justice, could delay the application of the amnesty.
Therefore, in the face of criticism, Turull has pointed out that the delay in the approval of the amnesty law is not a waste of time. “We are not wasting time but gaining it if we manage to shield that,” he added, while ironically commenting on the judges’ sudden interest in European justice that, in his opinion, they have until now ignored.
