Esquerra Republicana, Junts, CUP-NCG and En Comú Podem have registered this Tuesday in the Parliament a declaration of support for those accused of Tsunami Democràtic, after many of them have established their residence outside of Spain to avoid the action of justice Spanish, which is very harsh with judges when considering accusations of terrorism an interference of the judicial power over the legislative power.
The text denounces the threat to “thousands of activists” of the independence movement – with causes such as the Tsunami or against the CDR in, for example, Operation Judas – and notes a “regression in the protection of the right to protest” in the State. The four groups registered the text in Parliament and it will be debated this Tuesday afternoon at the meeting of representatives of the Permanent Deputation.
The four parliamentary groups consider the investigations by the National Court and the Supreme Court a “direct attack on the exercise of fundamental rights.” The declaration explicitly rejects the equation of terrorism with the independence movement in an attempt “to criminalize protest” and “silence political dissidence” by the State. Thus, the groups warn that investigating actions protected by the peaceful exercise of fundamental rights for terrorism endangers “the democratic principles of the rule of law.”
For this reason, Esquerra, Junts, CUP and Comuns demand that the accusations of terrorism linked to the protests over the ruling of the 1-O referendum be withdrawn. The statement recorded this Tuesday also asks to stop the repression against the independence movement and against popular movements, for which it urges the PSOE Government and the Congress of Deputies to make the pertinent legal modifications so that political dissidence can never again be equated with terrorism.
They also denounce and condemn “the use of justice in a new political persecution against social mobilizations and the exercise of fundamental rights, particularly against the independence movement.”
In this sense, the four political groups attribute this persecution to an attempt to hinder the application of the Amnesty law. For this reason, they consider accusations of terrorism an interference by the judicial power over the legislative branch that “weakens democracy and the will of the citizens.”
