Pedro Sánchez has only one arithmetic to cling to if he intends to renew the presidency of the Spanish Government. This inevitably happens to the Catalan and Basque independenceists. According to ERC, the situation is fully favorable to tighten the requirements and even take for granted that some will not be allowed to decline. One of which, an amnesty law that the spokeswoman for the Republicans, Raquel Sans, took for granted yesterday. “The framework of the negotiation involves amnesty, self-determination and the well-being of citizens; an amnesty that will be possible thanks to the work done by Esquerra in the last legislature”, said Sans in a press conference.
According to the republicans, the almost four years of dialogue and negotiation with the PSOE are what have allowed the amnesty to be possible today. The pardons, the repeal of the crime of sedition in the Penal Code or the black-on-white recognition by Moncloa of the existence of “a political conflict between the State and Catalonia” have paved the way for this purpose.
In any case, Raquel Sans remarked, as the president of ERC expressed in an interview with La Vanguardia, that the amnesty is not an end point, but the starting point to advance in the other major axis of the demands of the Republicans: self-determination.
In this context, it should be borne in mind that groups of lawyers close to the PSOE Government and Sumar – currently in office – have already begun to design a text on amnesty that fits into the Constitution.
Sans also took the opportunity to brag about the strategy carried out by his party. The republicans understand that the “intelligent confrontation” that Junts per Catalunya had wielded has been left behind. The first observation, the negotiation with the PSOE by the Bureau of the Congress of Deputies. The latest example was the meeting held yesterday in Brussels by Carles Puigdemont with the leader of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz. “We celebrate all the negotiations and interlocutions that open up in this way of negotiation. It is the path chosen by Esquerra”, reiterated the spokeswoman.
However, for the moment the calls to Junts to coordinate in the negotiation are fruitless. ERC insists on it every day. yesterday too But the post-convergents aren’t here for those things this time. On the other hand, ERC did see the moment to reunite – to a certain extent – with the ANC, and unlike last year, this year the party, the Government and Pere Aragonès himself will attend the demonstration of the Eleventh of September organized in Barcelona by the organization led by Dolors Feliu.
