In recent years, the independence movement has forcefully criticized the role of the judicial leadership during the process, both in substance and in its forms and timing. Junts spokesperson in Madrid, Miriam Nogueras, highlighted this Sunday in this regard that “it is a reality that not even the Spanish Government itself can ignore.” “Therefore, we demand that action be taken,” added the JxCat leader.
Thus, Nogueras has once again attacked the judges and has pointed out that “by action or omission” they are “most responsible” for the political situation in Catalonia in recent years.
“The Spanish judicial leadership is the most responsible for what Catalonia is suffering and it is undeniable that the situation is what it is and not even the Spanish Government can ignore that these members of the judicial leadership, by omission or action, are the maximum responsible for this situation,” said Nogueras, who added that “it is necessary that all those who have endorsed this injustice act out of responsibility.”
Likewise, the Junts leader has justified the need for the Amnesty law that is now being processed in the Congress of Deputies. “They are the most responsible and no Amnesty law would be necessary if it were not for this unjust situation and abuse by the State,” she added.
The post-convergence deputy spoke like this from the Oil Fair in Les Borges Blanques (Les Garrigues) after the third vice-president of the Central Executive and Minister for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, the socialist Teresa Ribera, criticized on Friday the role of the judge of the National Court investigating the Democratic Tsunami case, Manuel García-Castellón, who intends to impute terrorism, among others, to Carles Puigdemont (Junts) and Marta Rovira (Left).
Although other members of Pedro Sánchez’s cabinet have opted for silence on this matter, the second vice president of the Government and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz (Sumar), also charged against the magistrate. “This judge has us accustomed to always leaning in this same direction, which has an important political implication, and usually comes up at sensitive moments,” Ribera had pointed out, although this Saturday he opted for silence.
Without leaving aside this whole issue, Nogueras has said that there is still room to negotiate with the socialists on the amendments to the Amnesty law that were left alive last Thursday in the Justice commission and that will be addressed again this coming week, before the text of the norm reaches the plenary session at the end of the month. “We fought until the last minute,” he said. The objective of Junts, Nogueras has defended, is to approve a “comprehensive amnesty in which everyone enters and that is immediately applicable.”
On Thursday at the commission meeting, the PSOE rejected the amendments that JxCat and ERC had presented, each on their own, to the initial draft. Among the amendments of the pro-independence groups, there was one from each group that tried to shield those accused of terrorism from the application of the amnesty, precisely those prosecuted by Tsunami Democràtic and also the members of the republic’s defense committees ( CDR) who were detained in Operation Judas, who are awaiting trial.
