Yes to the report of the presentation, no to the law. This is the formula chosen by Junts so that the work done with the Amnesty law so far in the Congress of Deputies is not lost and, at the same time, to gain time to continue negotiating with the PSOE and try to incorporate their aspirations A path to which they see recourse despite the message of Félix Bolaños after the plenum.
From JxCat they had assured during the last hours that they were prepared to overturn the law if, in their opinion, it was not robust enough. At the same time, they added that their intention was to negotiate until the end so that there would be an agreement or that the PSOE would move from its initial position of not accepting the amendments they proposed, especially after Monday’s statements by the socialist spokesperson, Esther Peña , or of the third vice-president of the central government, Teresa Ribera, a few days ago. Everything was reminiscent of what happened in the plenary two weeks ago with the first decrees of Moncloa, but this time the outcome was different.
The threat was consummated after the amendments that were still alive were overturned in the previous debate.
The justification put forward by the post-convergents is that, with the movements of magistrate Manuel García-Castellón at the National Court and judge Joaquín Aguirre at the court of inquiry number 1 of Barcelona, ??the leaders of the process could be left out of criminal oblivion and some activists, such as the members of the Committees for the Defense of the Republic (CDR) who are awaiting trial. “The adaptation of the judicial agenda to the political agenda is so brazen that they don’t even need arguments”, the spokeswoman for JxCat in Madrid, Miriam Nogueras, pointed out about this from the lectern.
Sources from the training of Carles Puigdemont – the former president assessed “the efforts of the PSOE and Sumar” in “a hostile context” and put the focus on the judges – detail that they do not want what happened with the amnesty with the reform of the crime of embezzlement, which for the leaders of the 1-O did not have the desired effects after the interpretation of the magistrates. These sources also point out that they are willing to take the risk that the European justice overturns some points of the law if their proposals to modify it are accepted. “They do not accept amendments because they are afraid of what European justice will do”, asserted Nogueras. “We take full responsibility”, he added.
The intention of the post-convergents was to have at least two of their amendments accepted, one that they presented to extend the term of the amnesty until November 2011 and, above all, another that they agreed with the PNB with which, according to their judgment , yes, coverage would be given to all pro-independence supporters who now believe they can be left out, both those accused of terrorism and those investigated for the alleged Russian conspiracy in the process. “Excluding the terms of terrorism and treason, what we do is not to embarrass Europeans by trivializing terrorism, as prevaricating judges do”, emphasized Nogueras.
Earlier, the leader had reiterated the party’s position, with a last attempt to reconcile positions with the PSOE – “we will exhaust until the last option”, she said – and the warning that they could not accept the rule as it was drafted. “Stopping the repression halfway is not stopping it”, he considered. “We cannot participate in leaving Catalan independence exposed to the arbitrariness of the politicized Spanish judicial leadership”, added the leader, who reinforced her argument with the action of the justice system in recent days.
For Junts, “the text is a good starting point and it would be even more so in a full democracy without interference”. “But the law has loopholes through which the prevaricating Spanish justice can leave the amnesty on wet paper”, postulated the one from JxCat, who ended up raising the tone when she told the PSOE that “they are not ready to break with the Francoism” and asked them to fight the judges. “A Francoism that you know is installed in many institutions of the State and that depends on your will to eradicate it, today they are against us and tomorrow they will go against you”, he pointed out.
