The PP spokesperson in the Congress of Deputies, Miguel Tellado, explained this Wednesday at a press conference the reasons that have led his party to present an amendment to the entirety, with alternative text, to the proposed amnesty law for those prosecuted for the independence process in Catalonia: “The PP fulfills its constitutional obligation to defend the State and democracy,” he stated.
As an alternative, the PP will propose in its amendment to the entirety the creation of a “crime of constitutional disloyalty”, as Tellado has defined it, which will be aimed at punishing “non-observance” or “non-compliance” with the laws, and in Specifically, it provides for the “dissolution” of those “organizations or legal persons” that commit such crimes, such as, for example, the call for “illegal consultations” such as the 2017 independence referendum in Catalonia.
In this sense, Tellado has insisted that the PP seeks to “defend the State, democracy and the validity of the Constitution against the attacks of the independentists with the complicity of the Government of Pedro Sánchez” and has pointed out that the amendment, which does not has the possibility of prospering given the distribution of forces in Congress, it aims to “overthrow the amnesty law and restore the legal and legal protections of the rule of law” against the “cessions to the independence movement.”
For the PP, what it is about at this moment is “protecting the State from those who want to weaken it” and that is why it proposes in its amendment the reinstatement of crimes in the Penal Code that, as Tellado has highlighted, “should never have disappeared.” “, in reference to the modification of the crime of embezzlement and the elimination of sedition agreed upon in the last legislature. “This amnesty supposes the erasure of crimes from 2017 to the present day that range from corruption to terrorism,” he stated.
The “rearmament of the State” proposed by the PP through its amendment to the entirety, which will be announced in detail this afternoon, states that the amnesty law is “illegal” and that, despite the foreseeable parliamentary failure, its alternative initiative “It is not the end, but the beginning” of a legislative path through which the popular party intends to end the “impunity” that Sánchez has granted, from his point of view, to the independence leaders “in exchange for a handful of votes” .
“It is a law that embarrasses many socialists and the majority of Spanish democrats,” argued Tellado, who recalled that the PSOE also saw it as unconstitutional before the July 23 elections and has accused the Government of assuming the “narrative.” fallacious” of the independentistas, who intend to “rewrite” the recent history of Spain, and to lie when talking about “coexistence” when what it is about, in their opinion, is a “buying of votes” that breaks constitutional equality between citizens to favor a “privileged caste” at the expense of the judiciary, which sees its independence questioned.
Thus, the popular spokesperson has insisted that the amendment that the PP will register this afternoon in Congress and that will be debated next week in plenary is “more pertinent than ever”, because the independentists are not asking for amnesty because they have assumed that they made a mistake, he stressed, but rather they announce that 2024 will be the year of the beginning of a process of secession from Catalonia, as expressed by the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, when demanding the calling of a referendum.
At a time when the revelation of the negotiations with Junts in the summer with a view to exploring the possible investiture of Alberto Núñez Feijóo have come to the fore, the PP considers that the amnesty law, which the leader flatly refused popular after those contacts, has been “Sanchez’s payment to the independentists to be president of the Government. “It is a serious mistake and the PSOE must rectify,” exclaimed Tellado, who understands that it is part of a “strategy of degradation of the democratic institutions” promoted by Pedro Sánchez.
