While the acting President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, accepted the King’s request to appear at the investiture, the Senate approved this Tuesday a motion proposed by the Popular Group declaring against a negotiation for the investiture of the president who have as a counterpart an amnesty, a proposal that the PSOE considers “old and old” and that does not reflect the reality of Spain.
The motion, approved with the votes of the PP, Vox and UPN, urges the acting Government to guarantee constitutional principles and, in the face of the blackmailing policy of the independentistas, “and proposes recovering the policy of State agreements between the main political forces national level.
Furthermore, it proclaims the rule of law and the equality of all citizens, which is why it disapproves of any political negotiation that includes “as compensation the granting of an express or veiled amnesty” or any type of pardon or judicial benefit.
As the PP has explained in the justification of the motion, in any European democracy, the demand to “proceed to dynamit the Rule of Law as a preliminary step or nuclear element of a negotiation,” would be “immediately discarded, as an unaffordable condition to form government, by any democratic political party.” On the other hand, the PP sees the investiture of the acting President of the Government as “a done thing” and believes that it has already begun an “opaque negotiation process” for the presentation of a bill in the Congress of Deputies “that gives satisfaction to the swallow imposed by Carles Puigdemont.”
In defense of the motion, PP senator Antonio Silván has argued that approving an amnesty law would mean that it is “the State itself that delegitimizes itself and represents a fraud on citizens and an attack on the rule of law.”
On the other hand, the PSOE spokesperson, Eva Granados, has considered that the PP proposal is “the demonstration of the cause of Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s defeat: not knowing the Spain of 2023.”
“It is an old, old motion,” just at the moment when “a new time is opening in our country in which dialogue is the method and the Constitution the framework of all negotiations,” he assured.
Also for Junts per Cat senator Josep Lluis Cleries, it is a “black and white motion with No-Do music in the background” when what is needed is a “historic pact that recognizes that Catalonia is a nation.” Thus he has considered that it is a “losers’ motion” that only seeks to ensure that the candidate for the investiture “cannot make an agreement with anyone, that he renounces being president.”
For her part, the representative of UPN. María Mar Caballero has announced that she would support the motion because she considers that in any negotiation “there are some lines that should not be crossed,” but she has stressed that what really worries her is “that nothing is known about what they are negotiating with Batasuna.” to gain their support in the investiture.
