Everything seems to indicate that the dynamic that occurred in the Congress of Deputies a few days ago with the first decrees of the central Government, in a plenary session full of uncertainty until the last minute, can be repeated today with the debate and vote on the Amnesty law . Given the movements of the judges these days, of the magistrate Manuel García Castellón in the National Court and of the judge Joaquín Aguirre in the first instance courts of Barcelona, ??Junts warns that it cannot give its support to the current wording of the rule of criminal forgetfulness and maintains open negotiations with the PSOE in order to accept an amendment that the party negotiated with the PNV and that, in its opinion, would make the scope of the amnesty more robust than it is now.
The party leadership met this Tuesday morning electronically and until the last minute there will be negotiations with the PSOE, according to party sources.
Meanwhile, the Government’s spokesperson, Pilar Alegría, has not closed the Amnesty law just a few hours before the debate in Congress begins. Alegría, who was asked again and again by journalists about the future of this legal initiative in the press conference after the Council of Ministers, limited herself to underlining that it is now up to the legislative branch to reach agreements and agree on the law. .
In no case has the minister definitively closed the current text, but neither has she said that the incorporation of amendments will be negotiated.
Alegría recalled that for the Government, the Amnesty law seeks to guarantee coexistence in Catalonia and of Catalonia with the whole of Spain.
Junts already pointed out yesterday that there was room to continue negotiating. It is the message that the formation wanted to send on the eve of the vote and that it reiterates now. The post-convergents have already indicated that they suspect various options regarding today’s vote, including not supporting the norm in the worst case scenario, considering that it does not encompass everything that in their opinion it should encompass.
Those of Jordi Turull believe that after García-Castellón’s latest movements the law may not protect those investigated for terrorism, such as Puigdemont and Marta Rovira and almost thirty other people. The reactivation of the Voloh case by Judge Aguirre, in turn, has put JxCat even more on alert. In the party they fear that the judge will cling to the exclusion of the amnesty for crimes of high treason due to alleged links with Russia.
However, the amendment negotiated by the group led by Miriam Nogueras in Madrid with the Jeltzales last week would provide greater protection for the application of the amnesty, they point out in the formation, which maintains other claims on the table, such as that the application period of the criminal offense starts a year earlier, on November 1, 2011, so that the Court of Accounts cases are completely amnestied. In the supervisory body the investigation period starts earlier than in the courts.
In the event that the report of the presentation is overturned, this is the wording of the law, which came out of the justice commission last week, the text would return to that body before it is addressed again in the plenary session of the Lower House . Said commission, if necessary, would have a period of one month to redraft the law with the initial text, so that the political debate would return to the starting point.
Although Esquerra also advocated yesterday to exhaust the deadlines and try to negotiate improvements to the law, the tone of Oriol Junqueras’ party was different and they considered that even though the amendments are not accepted, the drafting of the norm is good.
Republican sources lamented this Tuesday that “it seems that the approval of the Amnesty law is reached by shuffling when it is a great victory.”