Esquerra Republicana has been saying for days that the amnesty has already been agreed with the socialists, that it was included in the agreement of the Board of the Congress of Deputies last August and that it is taken for granted. This Monday the training went a little further and assured that the negotiation has already gone beyond the “political part” and has entered the “technical” area and that there is already an exchange of documents between the different actors involved in the talks, without specify or provide further details in this regard. “Now we are in the technical issues of the amnesty, the political part has already been resolved,” the Republicans emphasize.
Furthermore, those of Oriol Junqueras have stressed that in no case is the approval of an amnesty law in the Lower House “the end point”, but rather it is the beginning and that after that the next step is to enter “the resolution phase of conflict” and address self-determination. “It is not worth understanding that the counter has been set to zero and that’s it. The amnesty is not the final point, it is the initial point. Now we must truly address the conflict and enter the resolution phase,” said the spokesperson. of the Republicans, Raquel Sans. “Let no one interpret amnesty as a final point. It is the starting point,” added the party’s deputy in Parliament.
The resolution phase of the conflict, for Esquerra, involves negotiating a consultation on the independence of Catalonia. “We have to address the negotiation and start moving towards the referendum,” considered the party spokesperson. “This point is key,” she stressed immediately afterwards.
After Jaume Asens advocated this Monday in an interview on SER for leaving aside self-determination to focus on the referendum, ERC has replied that this is “decaffeinating the negotiation.” “For ERC the framework is very clear, although Asens wants to water down the negotiation,” Sans pointed out. “The amnesty was part of the agreement of the Congress Board, it was already signed by the PSOE. Its signature is there. There is previous work: pardons, embezzlement reform, repeal of sedition… there is a lot of work behind it. Now that the amnesty is underway, the resolution phase begins,” the Republican leader insisted. However, in the statement that ERC sent at that time, after reaching an agreement with the socialists, reference was made to the approval of an amnesty law at first, which was corrected shortly after. It has been in recent days that ERC has once again established the amnesty in that pact.
At the ERC press conference there was also a message for the acting President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, whom Sans has asked to “wake up” and “put fifth gear” in the negotiation. “We do not accept last-minute proposals,” warn the Republicans, who believe that there needs to be “coordination” with Junts per Catalunya.
