It seems that Junts per Catalunya and Esquerra Republicana do agree on something: that the Amnesty law must be “as robust as possible” and that the law must be “armoured much more” because the judges find no cracks in the subsequent interpretation. For this reason, the two parties negotiated yesterday the possibility of incorporating amendments to the rule.
If this will turns into action and all of this takes shape in black and white, it will become concrete throughout today’s day. Until the last moment, with discretion, the legal teams of the two formations negotiated amendments to the initial text of the law, which continues its course in the Congress of Deputies, after the amendments in their entirety that had registered the Popular Party and Vox.
Today at six o’clock in the afternoon the deadline for presenting partial amendments ends and the two pro-independence formations worked yesterday against the clock to try to cover any waterways they detect in the proposed law that the PSOE registered in November alone , after ERC’s initial reluctance towards the text that the Socialists had agreed with Junts.
So, the objective of both this time coincides. “We will be attentive until the last moment in case we need to make a contribution”, point out JxCat sources, who note that the aim is for the Amnesty law to “go well”.
The current one, as explained by the general secretary of Junts, Jordi Turull, is a debate “between lawyers to shield the law much more”, in case someone thinks there may be “a crack”, since the judicial dome ” he wants to try to boycott it”. “It is a strictly legal discussion held by the lawyers of the political formations that have supported it”, added the post-convergence leader, who considers that the judicial leadership has already shown what the intention is in relation to the application of the measure of criminal oblivion.
Regarding the times, he pointed out that it was hoped that it would not come until the last moment with everything open. “We would like this negotiation not to be in extremis”, he wished, although it is the most likely option. “We believe that all the political forces are very well advised by many lawyers and they will certainly agree on two issues, to guarantee the immediate applicability of the law and the extension of the Amnesty law. The idea is to reach an agreement”, concluded Turull in an interview with TV3.
The spokeswoman for ERC, Raquel Sans, in turn, spoke in similar terms, although she remarked that there would be discretion until the last moment and that they would try to ensure that no detail of the amendments transpires until they are registered in the Lower House
Sans accepted “maximum responsibility and maximum discretion” because, as he said, they are aware of “the judicial offensive that this law will suffer”. “We have seen it in the declarations of the General Council of the Judiciary and in the reform of the Senate’s regulations that approved the PP”, said the member of Parliament, who added that they do not want “any loophole” in the text.
“We talk to everyone, until tomorrow [today] at the last moment we will not make public whether the amendments and the content will be presented or not,” Sans said at the press conference following the meeting of the Republican leadership. The ERC leader opined that, “if there are amendments, they must have the necessary support to prosper”, so she implied that they will only present them if they have options to go ahead with the next parliamentary procedure. “If they are presented, they must be approved; therefore, it is necessary to talk to everyone”, insisted the deputy, who pointed out, in the same sense as Turull, that the rule has in advance a judicial offensive that forces them to shield themselves to the maximum”. “The law must be as robust as possible”, he concluded.
