The PP wants the European bodies to know first hand the vicissitudes that the Amnesty law is suffering, and although the protest of the farmers, who took Brussels on the occasion of the meeting of the European Council, prevented the celebration of the summit of European leaders of the EPP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo took the opportunity to meet with the president of the European People’s Party (EPP), Manfred Weber.
Feijóo warned him that the cession in the face of the pro-independence intentions could be “a destabilizing element” of the European Union.
The PP president referred to the pro-independence claim to include the crime of high treason and highlighted the alleged contacts between the leaders of the process and Vladimir Putin’s Russia. In statements to the media, Feijóo emphasized that they are no longer satisfied that the amnesty “includes embezzlement, the territorial integrity of the State and terrorism”, as in his opinion already appears in the text, but now includes “also the contacts of Catalan independence and the Putin regime, which would be classified as a crime of treason”.
Subsequently, the president of the PP responded to Sánchez, who from Brussels had assured that the crimes of the pro-independence parties could not be classified as terrorism. In a message on the X social network, Feijóo replied: “I regret having to remind you that the President of the Government neither puts nor removes terrorist labels. This corresponds to justice” and he added that, “if there is no such crime, it is not explained why they want to amnesty him”.
From here, he said, comes “our alarm about the situation of the rule of law in Spain, a concern, assured Feijóo, that “is shared by the PPE and its president”. Feijóo guaranteed that the PP “will not take a single step back” and will defend the rule of law in Spain, in the face of the criminal amnesty text that the Spanish Government and Junts continue to negotiate. For this reason, he informed the European Commission and the European Parliament that Europe “cannot afford that the fourth economy of the euro is questioning fundamental pillars of the Union”.
The president of the PP denounced in Europe that, with the processing of the Amnesty law, a “massive offensive against judges” has begun in Spain, which means “a continued disrespect allowed by the central government, because He calls them prevaricaters and corrupt”, and this, in a country of the European Union, “cannot be accepted”.
For this reason, Feijóo wanted to explain to Weber “the attack on judicial independence from the public authorities” that is taking place even from the central government. He also addressed “the trivialization of acts considered terrorist by the judges”, or the “vocation to downplay the importance of the collaboration between Catalan independence and the Russian regime”.
The president of the PP considers it more necessary than ever to delve into the independence of justice in Spain, and referred to the negotiations that began on Wednesday in Brussels by the minister of the presidency, Félix Bolaños, and the deputy secretary of politics institutional of the PP, Esteban González Pons, under the supervision of the commissioner of justice, Didier Reynders, for the renewal of the General Council of the Judicial Power (CGPJ). Yesterday, the PP again put on the table that, in order to renew justice and promote its depoliticization, it is necessary to reform the Law on the Judiciary and modify the way of electing the members of the Council. For the people, both things will have to develop simultaneously”, because “there will be renewal and there will be law, or there will be nothing”.
According to Feijóo, “we must renew the Council, yes, but also regenerate the criteria of those who are part of the Judiciary. Without these two issues, the negotiation would not be right, it would be lame”. The president of the PP assured that “the Commission knows very well what our position is and we will not deceive anyone. It is true that the Government has deceived us, therefore, we have learned to negotiate; we propose very clearly that there must be a new law and a renewal of the Council, both things, one alone is not possible”, he remarked. He also stated that there is no recommendation by the Commission to renew the Council first and then draft the law.
