None of the conditions that the Cercle d’Economia has set for its support for an amnesty are met. It is the response of the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to the position of the Catalan business organization that has stated that it would support the grace measure if a series of conditions were met, among which are that the unilateral route be renounced, and that seek consensus with the PP.
So the answer to Cercle is “the circumstances do not exist”, and he explained why. The first, because “this amnesty is not a reconciliation, but rather a political transaction”, that is, it does not seek to enable the Catalan citizens to overcome their division but rather “it is a transaction for seven votes, so that someone can be president of the Government”, then the amnesty “does not deepen coexistence, but rather convenience.”
Feijóo thanks the Cercle d’Economia for defending that an issue of these characteristics has to be the product of an agreement between the PP and the PSOE, as in his opinion state affairs should be addressed, but in this case it is not possible, because the amnesty “is not a state agreement, but an agreement against the state.” Therefore, the PP “is at the opposite end of what is being negotiated.” In fact, the president of the PP maintains that he has resigned “from being president so as not to give in to the amnesty, and other demands of the independentists.” In his opinion, “Sánchez is about” to be president, because he gives in to those conditions.
For Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the amnesty “is illegal from a legal point of view”, it is “aberrant from a democratic point of view” and it is “indecent from a moral point of view”, in addition to being, he stressed, “a great fraud electoral”, which is why he continues to ask that Sánchez renounce his investiture and go to elections on January 14, proposing to the citizens the amnesty and the self-determination referendum, since until now he had maintained a different situation regarding both issues.
The president of the PP made these statements in Brussels, where he participated in the meeting of leaders of the European People’s Party (EPP), prior to the Council meeting that takes place this Thursday in the Belgian capital. Feijóo had already warned that he would use all the means at his disposal to oppose and try to stop the amnesty for those accused in the process being negotiated by Pedro Sánchez, and he has taken advantage of his stay in Brussels to start a European offensive against the amnesty. .
He spoke about it with his European colleagues, but he also took the opportunity to meet with the Commissioner for Justice of the European Union, Didier Reydners, and talk to him, he said, about the problems “of the rule of law in Spain”, which in his opinion include the amnesty. . He did not reveal whether the commissioner had requested the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary.
Feijóo was pleased with the knowledge that Reydners had about what was happening in Spain, despite which he explained his rejection of this measure, and the reasons that led him to reject it, arguing that “not everything goes in politics” and ” “The rule of law is not negotiable, and national integrity cannot be negotiable.”
