“The block dynamics in Catalan politics has been broken, and this is good for Catalan society”, Pedro Sánchez highlighted this Friday during the press conference that he held together with the Prime Minister of Slovenia, Robert Golob, from the castle de Brdo, in the town of Kranj, on the last stop of this first express tour in preparation for the Spanish rotating presidency of the EU.
The President of the Government has thus vindicated his policy of de-inflammation of the Catalan political conflict, which includes the repeal of the crime of sedition and the review of embezzlement, despite the fact that neither judges Pablo Llarena and Manuel Marchena nor now the Superior Prosecutor of Catalonia, Regarding Josep Maria Jové and Lluìs Salvador, they have interpreted this reform of the Penal Code in line with the intentions with which the central government and the Republican Left promoted it.
“Total respect for judicial decisions”, the President of the Government has warned first of all about the accusations of the Prosecutor’s Office against Jové and Salvador, to whom he attributes the alleged crimes of disobedience, prevarication and aggravated embezzlement, for the organization of the referendum on self-determination of 1-O 2017. But Sánchez, at the same time, wanted to make an express “vindication of a policy that is causing a lot of good, in Catalonia and in the rest of Spain”.
Among the benefits that his commitment to dialogue in Catalonia would have already had, he has highlighted, precisely, the division of the independence movement, after the breakdown of the coalition Government between ERC and Junts, and the budget agreement sealed by the Republicans, the Socialists and the commoners : “The block dynamics in Catalan politics has been broken, and this is good for Catalan society.”
Sánchez has assured, in this sense, that “Catalan society has decided to turn the page on a dramatic and unfortunate situation that we experienced in 2017, and to bet on coexistence and dialogue between the different parties”. “That is where the Government of Spain is, always”, she stressed.
“Since the beginning of my presidency, we have been making a commitment to dialogue, agreement and coexistence in Catalonia”, said the head of the Executive. “And I think that today no one doubts, except the most belligerent, that the situation in Catalonia in 2023 has nothing to do with what, unfortunately, we suffered in 2017,” he stated.
