“You want to fuel the conflict and we want to open a new time for reunion. “You play to spread fear and we want to spread hope.” The spokesperson for the socialist group, Patxi López, presented this Tuesday afternoon the proposal for an organic amnesty law, for consideration in Congress, contrasting with these words the objectives that the PSOE sets for itself with this initiative. legislative and the strategy that in his opinion the Popular Party follows to justify its opposition to the future norm.
Patxi López began by reproaching that the PP has demanded that the vote on taking into consideration, which will take place tonight and for which the initiative already has an absolute majority of 178 seats guaranteed, be by call of each deputy. “We have no problem portraying ourselves,” the former Lehendakari replied, despite the fact that, as he regretted, it was only to later be “singled out” as “enemies” of Spain by the right. But he has assured that the 121 socialist deputies will vote yes, without any fissures. “The more they threaten us, the more convinced we are of what we are going to do,” he warned.
The socialist spokesperson has criticized that the right has already deployed “a complete catalog of insults, disqualifications and apocalyptic announcements” in response to the amnesty, despite not offering any other alternative for the resolution of the political conflict in Catalonia.
“We have chosen politics,” defended Patxi López, after the PP government opted for “rage” to face the independence process. “We have recovered politics to solve political problems,” he insisted. First with the dialogue table with the Generalitat, then with the pardons for imprisoned independence leaders and the repeal of the crime of sedition in the previous legislature, and now with the amnesty. “The first steps to de-escalate the crisis have worked,” he assured.
Patxi López has tried to dismantle, piece by piece, all the PP’s warnings against this initiative. “The amnesty is exceptional, but it is not unconstitutional,” he argued. In fact, he recalled that “the amnesty gave birth to democracy” in 1977. “The Constitution itself was born from an amnesty,” he assured. And he has emphasized that the Magna Carta, in its text, “did not include it, but it did not exclude it either.” “They have the right to protest and kick, but they cannot deceive people,” he concluded.
