Junts’s no to the Amnesty law without the incorporation of its amendments to shield criminal oblivion from investigations for terrorism or treason continues to bring a tail and from the Government of the Generalitat and Esquerra they continue to insist on the “error” that, his trial, his pro-independence rivals committed.
In this sense, the brand new Vice-Minister of Strategy and Communication, Sergi Sabrià, has accused Junts this Friday of leaving more than a thousand families destroyed with its refusal, since there are defendants who in the coming weeks or months will have to face trials that, If the rule had been approved, they could have been postponed or permanently suspended.
Such is the case of the Minister of Culture, Natàlia Garriga; the president of ERC in Parliament and ex-secretary general of the Vice-presidency and Economy of the Generalitat, Josep Maria Jové, and the ex-secretary of Hacienda and now president of the Port of Barcelona, ??Lluís Salvadó, who will face their trial in the TSJC on April 10 for alleged disobedience in the preparations for 1-O.
“It’s good to hear that the PSOE says that everyone will be amnestied, great,” Sabriá acknowledged in statements to the Cafè d’Idees program on TVE and Ràdio 4. in reference to yesterday’s words by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez from Brussels, “but we must also be aware that on Tuesday there were 1,200 people, 1,200 families, and I coincided with some of them, who were absolutely devastated because trials begin now, in February,” he lamented immediately.
The new deputy minister has also considered Junts’ attitude “naive”, knowing “how Spain works” with “judges who are active in Vox”. “It is naïve to think that there would not be judges who would try to poke holes in the law,” Sabrià snapped after recalling that when the law was registered Junts considered that it was already “perfect.” “It is difficult to understand” the change in position, he alleged.
For this reason, the republican leader has defended the robustness of the law, that is, that it cannot be overturned by the Constitutional Court or European justice, in the face of its shielding, which he does not see as possible. “Maybe we will have to fight case by case,” he added. Thus, he has advocated moving forward with the law, making it immediately applicable, defending it case by case, all knowing that “the Spanish State will do everything it can” against it. At this point he has not ruled out that another rule could be made once the amnesty is applied, such as reforming the crime of terrorism in the penal code.
In line with this, the Republican has responded to the president of Junts, Laura Borràs, who yesterday assured that she preferred a non-constitutional amnesty than leaving people abandoned. “You can’t stand much or you can’t stand anything,” replied Sabrià, for whom it makes no sense that trying to ensure that penal oblivion is for everyone ends up with it not being for anyone. “There are things that we should save,” said the vice-minister, who took the opportunity to poke a jab at the former president of the Parliament. “If you said it thinking about her, it doesn’t come in, if you have divided contracts it doesn’t come in,” he concluded, alluding to his conviction for falsifying documents and prevarication for the irregularities committed at the head of the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes.
All in all, Sabrià has insisted on the country’s need to “change phase”, leave the amnesty phase behind and open the referendum phase, which he has shown himself convinced will be done despite the fact that now everyone world says it’s impossible.
Regarding the negotiation of the Generalitat’s budgets, Sabrià has recognized that contacts with the PSC are more advanced and has defended that the Hard Rock “is not a political decision” but rather an urban planning procedure that will go ahead ” if all the papers are good and everything is neat.” Precisely, the Hard Rock project is a red line that the commons have set to support the 2024 accounts.
