Discretion and prudence, if not silence, have prevailed in the negotiations for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez and in particular regarding the amnesty that the independentists, essential for the acting president of the Government to be able to reissue his coalition Executive, demand .
However, Sumar, one of the actors in these multi-party negotiations, is the one that offers the most transparency to citizens. If yesterday they presented their own amnesty proposal in Barcelona, ??entrusted to five jurists, “an open working document”, according to Jaume Asens, this Wednesday the interlocutor of Yolanda Díaz’s party with JuntsxCatalunya has revealed that the PSOE has its own proposal that does not match yours. In fact, Asens has gone further and revealed that Junts has its own position with which they have “points in common and elements of disagreement.”
In an interview on TVE, the former member of the Commons explained that the proposal they presented yesterday is an opinion that, in his opinion, should serve to open the social debate on the amnesty beyond the conversations they have with the rest of the possible parties. partners, but has acknowledged that they have already “discussed” it with the PSOE and with Junts. In this sense, Asens has said that when they showed the text to the socialists they made “proposals for modifying the wording”, many of which were assumed in the opinion presented yesterday at the Ateneu Barcelonès.
Sumar’s negotiator wanted to make it clear that his opinion is “discussed” but “not agreed” with both the socialists and Junts and that they will send it to the other parties in the running: Esquerra, Bildu and PNV, in addition to discussing it among the parties that make up the Sumar coalition.
In this regard, Asens has emphasized that the socialists have said “very clearly” that this is not their proposal and at this point he has revealed that “the PSOE has its proposal that does not coincide with ours.” “I cannot reveal the content of their proposal; they will be the ones to explain it,” he added next.
When asked about the issue, Asens wanted to qualify his words: “I cannot say if I have seen a proposal from the PSOE”, although he added that “each one has his own proposal and both some and others have raised objections to us.” In any case, he has clarified that the proposal that Sumar presented yesterday only binds them.
Regarding Puigddemont’s party, Sumar’s negotiator has indicated that “it has chosen silence but it is evident that it has a position and it is being discussed with the different actors.” “We have points in common and elements of discrepancy that I cannot reveal what they consist of,” acknowledged Asens, who also recalled that Esquerra has its own proposal, which would be the one it presented in Congress in 2021 and that the Table refused to process. .
On the other hand, Asens has acknowledged that if the amnesty is finally approved Carles Puigdemont could be a candidate to preside over the Generalitat although he has expressed his doubts that the MEP will do so.
Asked how many people would benefit from the amnesty, Asens referred to calculations by human rights organizations to estimate around 500 or 600 criminal cases and the same number of administrative cases. As for the police, who, as Sumar has been defending from the beginning, “should also be benefited,” he pointed out the limit of crimes against humanity, such as torture or degrading treatment or against moral integrity, which international law prohibits. amnesty. “A simple blow from a truncheon is not the same as a person who loses vision in one eye due to a blow from a rubber ball,” he exemplified. That is to say, as stated in the opinion, amnesty would be granted for the “disproportionate use of violence” in the attempt to prevent the referendum of October 1, 2017, but not for the police officer who threw a rubber ball that left a protester blinded in one eye. . “This last one is not amnestiable,” Asens stated.
