The president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has defended the judges and the Spanish judicial system and specifically, without citing him, the magistrate Manuel García-Castellón, who is investigating the cases of the CDR and Tsunami Democràtic for alleged crimes of terrorism, by ensuring that in the fall of 2019, after the sentencing of the leaders of the process in Catalonia “there were days of absolute terror”, paying for the judge’s instructions.
“Terrorism is terror and in Catalonia there were days of absolute terror,” said Feijóo in an interview on Antena3 in which, after the passage back of the Amnesty law – which now returns to the Justice commission -, he considers that yesterday in Congress there was “an amendment to the entire Spanish judicial system and to the Spanish judges” who were accused, he said, of “prevaricators and corrupt” by the Government’s partners.
Feijóo has referred to the protests against the sentencing of the process, for which the judge is investigating Carles Puigdemont and Marta Rovira for terrorism, and has stressed that these “acts of vandalism in Catalonia have occurred” and that there are images of those “tensions at the airport”, how they tried to “stop the trains from leaving”, “highways were cut off”. “There have been fires of street furniture, there are police officers attacked, there are police officers with permanent disabilities. It is obvious, this is the independence kale borroka in Catalonia,” he emphasized.
When asked if he considers it low-intensity terrorism, Feijóo stressed that “terrorism is terror.” “And in Catalonia there were moments, days, of absolute terror,” he said, adding that now “it is up to the judges to classify this type of acts and this type of behavior.”
“What is evident is that what happened in Catalonia is pure terror and it is pure fascism, because people could not go out into the streets, because people could not take their train, they could not take their plane, they could not take their car. , because people were afraid and did not leave their houses,” he proclaimed, to underline that “it happened for many days.”
Furthermore, Feijóo has been convinced that the amnesty law as it is drafted right now “does not pass the European filter.” “If a prejudicial appeal is raised, it does not pass the filter,” added Feijóo, who on the other hand has considered that the Government, agreed with Puigdemont, has “many bills to pay” and that, therefore, in this legislature “it is going to pass what Carles Puigdemont says”. In line with this, he understands that the PSOE is going to continue negotiating the Amnesty law in the Justice commission. “The amnesty law was not stopped yesterday,” insisted the leader of the popular parties, who recalled that the ruling was approved and “there is one month left to accept more amendments.”
In this sense, he has implied that what happened yesterday in Congress so that the PSOE did not accept the Junts amendments is that the Minister of Justice, Félix Bolaños, had a “very important” meeting today with the European Commissioner for Justice. , Didier Reynders, (to unblock the renewal of the CGPJ) and, in his opinion, “could not arrive with an even more obscene text at that meeting.” “What happened yesterday is that before the meeting with Reynders they could not go with a project like Junts proposed,” he stressed.
“At this moment Europe is wondering if Spain is Hungary or the old Poland,” warned Feijóo, who today travels to Brussels to insist before the popular Europeans on the “illegality” of the amnesty. “What happens in Spain does not happen in any EU country and where it has happened, Europe ordered a stop,” Feijóo warned, referring to Poland or Hungary.
And Feijóo believes that what is happening in Spain “is a democratic anomaly” and that we are seeing “a Government constantly humiliated by its partners.” For the leader of the PP, it is a Government that “has lost control” and the cause of this is how this Government was agreed upon. “We have forgotten what happened a few months ago: there is a president who does not have a majority in the Chamber, an opposition that has won the elections and has an absolute majority in the Senate and 16 more deputies in the Chamber. Mr. President for to be so, he has to agree with Puigdemont.”
