“Let’s be serious,” demanded this Wednesday the Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Cortes, Félix Bolaños, in the face of the intense political and legal debate provoked by the amendment to the Amnesty law agreed between the PSOE, Junts and Esquerra. which exempts the crime of terrorism from the norm whenever it involves a serious violation of human rights. “Does anyone really believe that the independence process is comparable to the terrorism that Spain suffered for decades?” Bolaños said. “What we all understand by terrorism, what Spain suffered during decades of terrorism, is outside the amnesty,” the minister stressed.
Bolaños has expressed himself in similar terms to those already done by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, last December in an interview on RAC1, when he warned that “the terrorism of ETA or the of a jihadist nature with the actions of Tsunami Democràtic or the CDR in the protests in Catalonia against the sentence of the process, even though Judge Manuel García-Castellón attributes this crime of terrorism even to the former president of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont.
The minister has called to be aware that the Amnesty law for those accused of the process, which will be voted on next Tuesday in the plenary session of Congress, is intended to “normalize the political, institutional and social situation in Catalonia.” “With this law, a new stage opens in Catalonia, a very deep wound that existed in Catalonia and the rest of Spain is definitively overcome,” he stressed. “We want coexistence in our country to be guaranteed, and that is the purpose and objective of the Amnesty law.”
At the doors of the Supreme Court, the Minister of the Presidency and Justice has also addressed the latest statements by the leadership of the Popular Party. “Institutions work in Spain,” Bolaños highlighted, in explicit reference to the State Attorney General’s Office, the Supreme Court or the Constitutional Court. “The judges and magistrates of our country continue to do their work every day,” the minister defended about a task that he considered fundamental in “an absolutely consolidated democracy such as Spain’s.”
Bolaños then lamented that “there are those who strive to discredit Spanish democracy and democratic institutions”, in clear reference to the PP. “But the democratic institutions in Spain work,” he insisted, before attending the inauguration of the State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz. Although the plenary session of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), whose mandate has expired for more than five years, considered that García Ortiz is not suitable for this position, the minister has defended that the State Attorney General’s Office “is a guarantee for the exercise of rights in our country.”
“The PP and Feijóo are in a spiral of extremism and in a far-right spiral of lies, exaggerations and delegitimization of institutions,” Bolaños criticized. Feijóo’s formation, in the minister’s opinion, “today is in an absolutely far-right strategy.” “The PP was a State party, and at this moment it is a party against the State institutions,” he concluded.
