The same day that the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, recognized that his party would appeal to the Constitutional Court if an amnesty is finally approved for all the causes derived from the process as demanded by the independent parties to support the investiture of Pedro Sánchez, the former president of the José María Aznar government issued a warning about the guarantee court.
The TC “is guarantor of the Constitution; it is not a political power and cannot say what the Constitution does not say, and if it does so it flagrantly breaks its obligations,” Aznar said yesterday, Monday, in the Mutua Madrileña Auditorium, in a colloquium of the NEOS foundation on the political situation in Spain, which has been introduced by the president of this entity and former minister Jaime Mayor Oreja.
“I don’t like at all some statements, some interpretation that is seen in some sentences where the Constitution is made to say what the Constitution does not say,” added the former leader of the PP. In some way, it was Aznar’s response to the confidence shown last Friday by the acting head of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez, when referring for the first time to the amnesty. “If they want to be appealed (the agreements with their possible partners) before the Constitutional Court by the opposition, they will also be validated by the Constitutional Court,” said the president at the end of the informal EU meeting in Granada.
Aznar’s warning and Sánchez’s confidence in the TC takes place at a time when the court has a progressive majority (since January), which for Sumar’s negotiator with Carles Puigdemont, Jaume Asens, makes it easier for the amnesty to receive approval. endorsement of the body of constitutional guarantees.
Aznar considered that the amnesty not only does not fit into the Constitution but destroys it and maintained that at this “existential” moment the time has come “to say enough is enough, to appeal to the civic conscience of the Spanish people,” who cannot be dumbed down. “We have reached the limit,” he said.
Answering questions from journalist Bietio Rubido, director of El Debate, Aznar stated that “the current political moment is critically existential for Spain because the discussion is focused on two things: amnesty and possible self-determination consultations.” “What is intended with the amnesty is not an act of generosity, nor conciliation,” he maintained; “the amnesty erases the crime” and therefore would mean “that the blow that was given was justified.” Thus, he defended that the amnesty “is an act against the constitutional system of Spain, and it is not that it does not fit in the Constitution, it is that it destroys the Constitution.”
Asked about the possibility that the TC would stop the amnesty, he said that the court of guarantees “is the guarantor of the Constitution; it is not a political power and cannot say what the Constitution does not say, and if it does so it flagrantly breaks its obligations.” “.
