The Government considers that the Amnesty law, as currently drafted, is there to move forward. He is not opposed to any other modification that is proposed, such as in the Criminal Procedure Law (LECrim), as La Vanguardia advanced on Saturday and Pedro Sánchez confirmed yesterday. But he does not believe it is necessary to link the negotiation of criminal oblivion with this reform.
“They are not directly related,” said the Government spokesperson, Patrícia Plaja, this afternoon after the meeting of the Executive Council. “The Amnesty law was already robust enough to be approved and we will have to see if the Criminal Procedure law can be improved,” he immediately stressed, without failing to remember that the modification of a rule like this requires deadlines that can lengthen over time.
“As far as time is concerned, now what is most urgent [is the amnesty] and what we cannot allow to be conditioned by certain sectors is the approval of the amnesty, and that does not mean that we do not consider that it can be review the LECrim”, he clarified.
ERC already made its position clear yesterday. Oriol Junqueras’ party is open to reform if it approves criminal oblivion. “ERC would welcome all those proposals that guarantee that the Amnesty law is approved as soon as possible,” admitted party spokesperson Raquel Sans. But she prioritized the endorsement of the norm that Junts caused to decline in Congress last week.
Plaja has spoken along the same lines: “It has to come out sooner rather than later, without delays.” For the Government, the yes to the amnesty cannot be made subject to the occurrences that certain people in the judicial field may have that it is difficult to understand the way they work… I will not say that they prevaricate, but I will say that it is difficult for them to understand. citizens as a whole that events that are not even a crime in recent weeks are related to issues as serious as terrorism.
However, Plaja has shown his most critical side with Junts in the form of a rhetorical question: “Do we consider what the starting point is, whether or not we should reform an Amnesty law that is robust, is legally protected in case any representative Does any judicial body have any idea?”
The Amnesty law is now pending its return to the Congressional Justice Commission. Within a month he could return to the plenary session. Junts’ rejection has had collateral effects: Pere Aragonès hoped to convene a table of Catalan parties to debate the clarity agreement. He intended to do so before the dialogue table between the Spanish and Catalan governments resumed to resolve the political conflict. This meeting is scheduled for the first quarter of the year and the president hoped to have a minimally outlined proposal to call the referendum under his arm. But Aragonès parked the Catalan party table waiting for the amnesty to be approved at least in its first point, in the Congress of Deputies.
Reluctance to modify the LECrim has also taken shape in the Sumar parliamentary group in which a good part of the coalition formations prefer to separate it from the processing of the Amnesty law.
The first to express her opinion was the leader of En Comú Podem. Despite being in favor of exploring all avenues for the Amnesty law to be approved, Aina Vidal has warned that the possibility of reducing investigation periods must maintain the “guarantees” of the parties in the procedural aspect.
In turn, Sumar’s recently appointed parliamentary spokesperson, Íñigo Errejón, has defended the search for “a good balance” in an eventual change. So that an adequate investigation is shielded from the investigation of cases and, at the same time, permanently lengthening processes for “extra-legal reasons” is avoided.
Finally, the deputy spokesperson for Sumar and deputy for Compromís, Águeda Micó, has shown herself in favor of seeking solutions that allow approving de-judicializing the Catalan conflict, to express that she does not understand the position of certain judges of linking incidents of the ‘procés’ with terrorism .
Outside of the plurinational group, Podemos has gone a step further and, through the mouth of its leader, Ione Belarra, has argued its refusal by pointing out that in Spain “there are no problems with instruction deadlines, but rather with bad instructions” derived from “judges”. who think they rule more than Parliament, in reference to the judge of the National Court Manuel García-Castellón.
