It seems that Junts per Catalunya and Esquerra Republicana agree on something: That the Amnesty law must be “as robust as possible” and the law must be “protected much more” so that judges do not find any cracks in its interpretation. later. For this reason, both parties are negotiating against the clock the possibility of incorporating amendments to the norm.
If this will is turned into actions and everything is expressed black on white, it is most likely that it will come to fruition during the day this Tuesday. Until the last moment, with discretion, the legal teams of both parties negotiate amendments to the initial text of the law, which continues its course in the Congress of Deputies after the amendments to the entirety that had been registered by the Popular Party and Vox.
This Tuesday at six in the afternoon the deadline to present partial amendments expires and the two pro-independence parties worked this Monday against the clock to plug any waterway they detect in the bill that the PSOE registered last November alone, after ERC’s initial reluctance towards the wording that the socialists had agreed with Junts.
So, apparently, the objective of both parties this time coincides. “Until the last moment we will be attentive in case any contribution needs to be made,” say JxCat sources, who emphasize that the objective is for the Amnesty law “to come out well.”
The current one, as explained by the general secretary of JxCat, Jordi Turull, is a debate “between lawyers to protect the law much more” in case someone believes that there may be “a crack”, since the judicial leadership “wants to try to boycott it.” ”. “It is a strictly legal discussion that the lawyers of the political groups that have supported it are having,” added the post-convergent leader, who considers that the judicial leadership has already shown what the intention is in relation to the application of the measure. of criminal oblivion.
Regarding the timing, he pointed out that he hopes it does not come to the last moment with everything open. “We would like this negotiation not to be in extremis,” he wished. However, the most likely option is that the matter is resolved during injury time, according to sources consulted. “We believe that all political forces are very well advised by many lawyers and will surely agree on two issues, on guaranteeing the immediate applicability of the law and on the extension of the Amnesty law. The idea is that an agreement is reached,” Turull concluded on TV3.
The ERC spokesperson, Raquel Sans, in turn, has spoken in similar terms, although she has stressed that there will be discretion until the last moment and that they will ensure that no details of the amendments are revealed until they are registered in the Lower House.
Sans has prescribed “maximum responsibility and maximum discretion” because, as he said, they are aware of “the judicial offensive that this law will suffer.” “We have seen it in the statements of the General Council of the Judiciary and in the reform of the Senate regulations that the PP approved,” stated the also member of the Parliament, who added that they do not want “any gap” in the drafting.
“We talk to everyone, until tomorrow [Tuesday] at the last moment we will not make public whether or not the amendments and their content are presented,” Sans said at the press conference after the Republican leadership meeting.
The ERC leader has expressed the opinion that “if there are amendments, they must have the necessary support to succeed,” implying that they will only present them if they have the prospect of moving forward in the next parliamentary procedure. “If they are presented, they have to be approved and, therefore, we have to talk to everyone,” insisted the deputy, who pointed out, in the same sense as Turull, that the norm has ahead of it “a judicial offensive” that It forces them to protect themselves as much as possible. “The law has to be as robust as possible,” he concluded.
