The Councilor of the Presidency, Laura Vilagrà, has assured that the amnesty “is just around the corner” and has defended that we must continue to “advance” the possibility of a referendum agreed with the State in the negotiation for an eventual investiture of Pedro Sanchez
In a media address this Saturday, Vilagrà insisted that the negotiation “will depend” on progress in the amnesty, self-determination and also in the “citizen welfare” portfolio. “We must be able to open and address the three folders and, in this sense, we will go as quickly as possible,” he assured.
Regarding the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to analyze the appeals of the nine convicted for 1-O, the counselor was convinced that Europe will once again “turn the page” to the State.
Regarding the negotiations for an investiture of Sánchez, Vilagrà also asserted that the Catalan’s entry into Congress “has shown that when several groups push in the same direction, the results come.” “In a framework like the current one, it is important that we work in coordination on three absolutely necessary folders: on the one hand, the amnesty, which we have just around the corner; but also on self-determination and the well-being of citizens,” he insisted. .
Regarding the investiture debate of the president of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, Vilagrà has defended that ERC “is not interested in what happens next Tuesday in Congress” and has charged against the popular party and Vox for “trying to back down the possibility to speak in Catalan in the lower house and in the European institutions”.
Regarding the demonstration that will be held this Sunday in Madrid, Vilagrà has played down the issue: “The PP and the extreme right have always gone against the progress of Catalonia, be it linguistic, political or human rights.”
The former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont has assured that, four years after ‘Operation Judas’ against members of the Committees for the Defense of the Republic (CDR), the only response expected from the State is “the end of repression and amnesty total”.
Last June, the Prosecutor’s Office asked to open a trial for crimes of terrorism against twelve members of the Committees for the Defense of the Republic (CDR) investigated for belonging to a radicalized faction of these groups that allegedly planned sabotage or violent actions in official headquarters in Catalonia in 2019. .
The majority were arrested on September 23, 2019 in what is known as ‘Operation Judas’, for allegedly planning violent actions ahead of the second anniversary of the independence referendum of October 1, 2017.
“No matter how many doors they break down, they will not be able to overcome our convictions. Four years after Operation Judas, the only response we expect from the Spanish State is the end of repression and total amnesty,” Puigdemont wrote in a message on the internet. social
For its part, the PSOE of Madrid has sent a burofax to Telemadrid in which it demands that it account for the costs planned to broadcast the concentration called by the PP in the Plaza de Felipe II this Sunday and to claim that it is not use public money to pay for the broadcast of a party act.
As explained by the leader of the Madrid socialists, Juan Lobato, in a video sent to the media, the former president José María Aznar and the regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso “have called a rally against the investiture of (Alberto Núñez) Feijóo , from what it seems,” he ironized.
Lobato has stressed that, apparently, Ayuso “has commissioned Telemadrid to make a special program using public media to finance the broadcast of that event.”
