Junts paintings only appear in public and en masse after the resolution of a negotiation with the PSOE. Whether the sun shines or the rain continues, when they succeed or when they have to tone down the failures. The rest of the days, dumb. ERC lends itself more to the media, but yesterday it copied this way of going out in a storm, but to try to pressure the post-convergents to approve the Amnesty law in the revalidation. Oriol Junqueras, Marta Vilalta, Joan Ignasi Elena, and also Campuzano, criticized them for the lack of agreement in the meeting in Barcelona on Wednesday that Félix Bolaños and Santos Cerdán of the PSOE held with Jordi Turull and Miriam Nogueras of JxCat.
In Esquerra it is not clear to them that the PSOE will end up approving the amnesty if Junts’ position persists. Junqueras expressed doubts about it in La Sexta. In addition, he described Junts’ first rejection of the rule in Congress as a “manifest error” because, in his opinion, it unprotected 1,500 people investigated, prosecuted or convicted by the consultation of November 9, 2014, by the 1 – Or because of the post-judgment protests of the Supreme Court. He insisted that criminal oblivion “covers everyone” and affirmed that with his position the formation led by Carles Puigdemont “gives ammunition” to the far right.
The Republicans not only see the amnesty in danger, but also the general State budgets. The party perceives that the PSOE is no longer so clear that Junts will vote in favor of the 2024 accounts that the Government of Pedro Sánchez can draw up and they fear that the approval of the Generalitat’s budget will be delayed, pending events in Madrid
Vilalta, deputy general secretary of ERC, also had her say. He agreed with the president of the party that the Amnesty law, as it is drafted now, “already includes all the people reprisaled in the framework of the independence cause”. And he doesn’t think changes are needed.
However, the spokeswoman for the Republicans also spoke of pardons. He did so from the point of view that had already been expressed last week by the Deputy Minister of Government, Sergi Sabrià: that the amnesty is essential and that it must be approved, but that surely, after the interpretations that some judges may make exclude those affected who supposedly should be able to take advantage of the criminal oblivion, “other things will have to come, say reform of another law, say modification of something else or you can say pardons afterwards”.
Carles Campuzano, Minister of Social Rights, went further and assured that the Sánchez Government is prepared to pardon all those who cannot be accommodated in the amnesty.
But the statements of the leader, who is not a member of the ERC, did not please the party. Nor Turull, general secretary of Junts, who stated that with statements like this Campuzano is more on the side of the PSOE than independence.
For his part, the Minister of the Interior, Joan Ignasi Elena, trusted that “we will not make the mistake of losing a historic opportunity” to approve the Amnesty law. Of the ERC cadres who made statements yesterday, he was the most optimistic.
ERC maintains constant contact with the PSOE. Yesterday, however, Vilalta did not want to confirm if his formation was also seen with Bolaños. However, the Republicans take for granted that the PSOE will keep its word of not changing the law and that at most they will come to offer guarantees to Junts through other means outside of the Amnesty law.
In any case, Vilalta recalled that, in case of changes to the rule, there are several groups that should validate them.
