The president of the Cercle d’Economia, Jaume Guardiola, reiterates the objective of an agreement between the major parties that promotes an amnesty with conditions for those accused of the process, as La Vanguardia has advanced today. Now, faced with the dichotomy of an amnesty without the consent of the popular people or a repeat election, he leans toward the former. “Better amnesty than going to elections,” he assessed this morning from the Cercle headquarters in Barcelona.
Guardiola and Miquel Nadal have presented the opinion note in which they choose to support a grace measure as long as certain determinants are met: renunciation of the unilateralism of the pro-independence parties, disengagement from the negotiation for the investiture and the maximum possible consensus. “We call for the responsibility of all actors,” they insisted.
The economic forum has stressed that it is not asking the parties to park their ideals, but rather to compromise to reach broad and lasting agreements on the territorial issue that allow “moving forward.” “The territorial debate has been entrenched for a long time, but it is not irresolvable and depends on us; there are alternatives for constitutional fit and financing,” Guardiola remarked.
For the president of the institution, PSOE and PP must be able to have “a proposal for a territorial pact that rescues the spirit of the constitution and with a horizon of several generations”, while the independence forces have to carry out “an exercise of realism and pragmatism”.
The economic forum also requests that a possible amnesty law have complete legal certainty so that, if approved, it will not be overturned by the Constitutional Court. “It is not a time to be in a hurry, the priority is quality,” Guardiola stressed regarding an electoral calendar that he does not favor. The institution will now intensify contacts with all the actors involved to explain its position.
Regarding the demand for an independence referendum of JxCat and ERC, Nadal considers it “legitimate” but “not very useful” to resolve the current political situation. “We do a practical reflection,” he added. The Cercle has called for an end to the “anomaly” of having several articles of the Statute suspended for years and has recalled its proposals on the territorial and financing model. The forum leans towards a new “federal style” model in which there is recognition of the “plural character of Spain.” On the other hand, it calls for a reform of the regional financing model.
