For ERC, the Amnesty law is “the best” and the “most robust possible”, but it has avoided talking about a perfect standard or a shield. This is how the party spokesperson Raquel Sans expressed herself during the press conference this afternoon. The continuous changes of Judge Manuel García-Castellón, who is investigating the case for alleged terrorism of the Democratic Tsunami, every time there have been modifications to the law agreed upon by the PSOE, Esquerra and Junts, force the Republicans to adopt a cautious attitude.
Even so, Sans has celebrated that tomorrow the Amnesty law will be approved in Congress, despite the fact that it will travel to the Senate right after – where the majority of the PP will cause its application to be delayed – and that, as he has said, ERC is aware of “the entire offensive” and that the rule will not stop “the repression.”
It was at this point that the Catalan leader described the judge’s actions and orders as maneuvers. “We cannot control the García-Castellón. No matter how much they persecute us, we will remain here and we will not cease to exist,” claimed the Esquerra spokesperson.
ERC keeps alive some amendments that will be voted on tomorrow in plenary. One of them proposes the suppression of the term terrorism. But the PSOE remains firm and has already reiterated time and time again that it will not admit it. The attitude in Oriol Junqueras’ party is to applaud a law whose approval no one would have bet a cent a few months ago. Republicans have always stated that it is not the text they would have presented on their own, but they accept it as it is now because it is the result of a multilateral consensus.
“It is a very important milestone for us,” said Sans, while pointing out that the Amnesty law “is not the end of anything, but the beginning to advance in the resolution of the political conflict.”
Sans has recalled the ERC campaign slogan of 2019. “Freedom, amnesty and self-determination.” For the Republican, the first occurred with the pardons, the second will materialize in a short time and the last is the final objective. “We have managed to move the PSOE and those who were not betting on the negotiation,” she said in reference to Junts. “It is one more example that the ERC path is a long-term one that began with the recognition of the political conflict,” he added.
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