Esquerra Republicana (ERC) and Junts per Catalunya have not wasted the first of the half-dozen parliamentary debates that the processing of the organic amnesty law will require to reissue their own competition in a domestic key. A struggle to capitalize on the future birth of the aforementioned law to present itself to the Catalan electorate as the party that has contributed the most to the great achievement obtained to date by the Catalan independence movement. A milestone that they have also agreed to consider already amortized to set independence as the next station.
The first to speak in this duel, after the presentation of the facts by the socialist deputy Patxi López, was Josep Maria Cervera. The Junts co-spokesperson has congratulated himself on the fact that the amnesty law is going to be a “way of returning to politics what belongs to politics” in reference to Junts’ return to the institutional game. “A necessary measure,” he continued, paraphrasing Junts leader Carles Puigdemont, “to remember that the amnesty law is a necessary measure to end the judicialization of politics” and not “a measure of grace.”
Cervera has sublimated the role of Junts by ensuring that the virtue of its formation is that “when it enters the equation, things happen that were considered impossible”, such as the processing of a legal text that the PSOE refused to address in the last legislature. “From now on it will be negotiated as equals between two nations,” he added.
But Cervera has not stopped there as he begins to outline the future scenario as soon as the law is approved. A new stage that “in no case will be a renunciation of the independence of Catalonia”, he has assured. And anticipating that the PP will want to elevate its legal battle to the European Union, the Junts leader has issued a warning: “In Europe we are waiting for you because Europe is our playground.”
Gabriel Rufián’s first words were aimed at defending “amnesty as a political solution that settles a debt with Catalonia.” The ERC spokesperson, who directed a good part of his intervention to Alberto Núñez Feijóo, criticized the PP leader for calling the bill an “electoral fraud when it has the support of the majority of Congress.” .
Rufián, who minutes before entering the chamber has mentioned the possibility of his group presenting amendments to the text, “above all, amendments that can be passed”, has taken for granted the approval of the law so, like Junts, advance that its roadmap already looks towards independence.
And looking this time at both the PP and PSOE benches, he pointed out that “in Catalonia we are prepared to win or lose a referendum. Are you?” (…) “I say this because four years ago a plenary session like this was impossible. What will happen in four years?”, the republican deputy has questioned, awarding his group this achievement. “
