The Amnesty law enters the final stretch again and faces some decisive days, with March 7, next Thursday, as the deadline to seal an agreement on the drafting of the norm in the Justice commission of the Congress of the Deputies. One of the people who participates and knows in detail the state of the negotiation between the PSOE and Junts, the former president Carles Puigdemont, referred this Saturday to a “new stage” in which it will no longer be necessary to “put the antidepressant fight as priority”, which is why he has called to leave “defeatism” behind. “It is evident that a new stage is coming, you just have to follow the current situation a little to know,” said the independence leader, who spoke of “leaving exile behind” and “removing the burden of repression that weighs on various people.” “.
Puigdemont has not said in any case that there is a definitive agreement on criminal oblivion with Ferraz. In any case, the former president has hinted that the matter is on track by speaking openly about the future scenario, although discreet conversations between the different actors are still underway, especially between socialists, post-convergents and republicans. The former president, the factual leader of JxCat, spoke in these terms at an event of the Consell de la República in Latour-Bas-Elne, in the south of France, after being re-elected as president of the independence entity based in Belgium.
In recent days, in the midst of media noise due to the movement of the Supreme Court, which supports the National Court, to investigate Puigdemont and other sovereigntist leaders for terrorism, due to the 2019 Democratic Tsunami protests, and the political focus placed on the Koldo case, socialists and post-convergents have brought closer positions and all public and private statements have been along the same lines: next week there will be an agreement. However, the formations await the final agreement out of caution.
In that sense, the progress of the report of the Venice Commission, an organization of the Council of Europe, which must be published in mid-March has been a boost for some and others for their position and an “endorsement” to move forward with the approval of the Amnesty law, which if validated in the plenary session of the Lower House in the plenary session that begins on March 12, will then be in dry dock in the Sendo for two months, before returning to Congress and seeing the light definitively. in the Official State Gazette at the end of May or beginning of June.
At this Saturday’s event, Puigdemont also demanded that we move from “resistance to the initiative” and from “reaction” to resuming the process. “The confrontation has not ended, the repression does not end no matter how many laws we make and that will have to be confronted,” he noted. “The deep bowels of the Spanish State have already shown that they are capable of ignoring the rule of law in the name of a sacred thing, the unity of the country and for us freedom is sacred,” he stated. “There will be a confrontation of sacred things,” he summarized.
In his speech he also appealed to unilateralism to assume the independence of Catalonia in the future. “As long as the State refuses to resolve the democratic demand of the Catalan people (…) we have the right and the duty to prepare for unilaterality,” he noted. “The declaration of independence is valid. No one has undone it. The Parliament has not undone it. Our unilaterality is no longer declarative, but practical. If someone had the idea of ??renouncing unilaterality, they cannot do so, because it is a right of the people of Catalonia,” the sovereigntist leader insisted before the Consell parish.
