“Manca finezza.” In these terms, the Minister of Social Rights, Carles Campuzano, expressed himself this Friday at an informative breakfast organized by Nueva Economía Fórum in Barcelona, ??in which he also asked “the friends of Junts”, with some members of the party present in the room, that the approval of the Amnesty law does not end in “the rocky road.”
“It is very complicated, delicate and difficult,” the minister admitted in relation to the validation of criminal oblivion, who has also requested that the Amnesty law be approved, an issue that he has defined as the most relevant in Catalan politics. the last few years, ended well. “It has to go well for us, it would be inconceivable for it to go wrong,” he stated. “I appeal to the people of Junts to be inspired to be delicate, fine and intelligent and to understand the difficulties and risks that the PSOE assumes,” continued the head of Drets Socials, who insisted that “if there is no finesse it will come out this operation is bad”.
In that sense, Campuzano, who had been active in Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya and did not make the move to JxCat in 2020, has highlighted that “there are no perfect laws neither here nor anywhere else in the world”, after the post-convergent group decided not to support the law that reached the plenary session on January 30. “Laws are always subject to the interpretation of judges and shielding a law is a naive view, you have to try to make it the best possible, but you cannot submit the approval of a law to the opinion of your legal advisor,” he continued, with a veiled reference to the lawyer Gonzalo Boye. “Whoever wants to will understand me,” he concluded. “Lawyers have to advise but the decision has to be made by the highest political leaders and when you trust your lawyer, you are not very smart,” he stressed in this regard.
Be that as it may, the conversations between the post-convergents and the socialists are still underway, although it is not expected that there will be any public news before the Galician elections on February 18. All the actors involved refer to “discretion” when asked about the evolution of their conversations.
At the same time that Campuzano spoke in that forum, former president Artur Mas assured that he was surprised that Junts voted against the amnesty law in a radio interview, although when he received Jordi Turull’s explanations he understood the reasons. The former general coordinator of the PDECat Marta Pascal also regretted this Friday, in the microphones of Ser Catalunya, that JxCat did not approve the criminal oblivion. Just after she attended the councilor’s event.
Another of the political issues that Campuzano has addressed, apart from everything related to the Department of Social Rights, has been the issue of immigration. In the words of the councilor, this political time “is characterized not only in Catalonia but also in Europe by fear, in a scenario of uncertainty.” To this end, he has asked “to provide answers and understand the fears and that behind them there are more or less legitimate demands of citizens.” “There are fears around language and identity,” the leader pointed out with a nuanced message to the Government’s statement on this issue, who has disdained entering into this debate linking crime and immigration.
“Catalanism has never been xenophobic”, as President Jordi Pujol said”, he pointed out. “We cannot fall into the trap of xenophobia”, he added. In the opinion of the councillor, “Catalanity is a concept that is transformed, like the country”, and “Catalanism has to be capable of defending the soul of an open nation”. “We are a nation of children of immigrants, if we do not incorporate that into our national narrative in an indisputable way we will not move forward”, he said. concluded, at the same time that he has claimed a “Candelian look”, in allusion to Paco Candel and his work Els altres catalans, which turns 60 in 2024.
“We need a project for an open and inclusive country, which has no complexes in defending the plural and open character of Catalan society and national identities are undergoing transformation. The feeling of belonging cannot depend on the ancestors, it can only be fostered in opportunities to prosper and get ahead,” he said.
