JxCat announces that it will not vote in favor of the amnesty law if the PSOE refuses to modify it

The management of JxCat has warned this Tuesday that it will not vote in favor of the amnesty law proposal this afternoon in Congress if the PSOE does not accept changes to protect it against possible “boycott” attempts by “ various judicial bodies.

This was announced by JxCat in a statement, after the party’s executive leadership held an extraordinary meeting this morning, a few hours before the plenary session of Congress debates the proposed amnesty law.

The proposed amnesty law reaches the plenary session of Congress this Tuesday after an express procedure marked by the PSOE’s negotiations with the Catalan independentists, who continue to demand changes so that the rule does not leave out anyone involved in the ‘procés’.

“Junts has always defended that the amnesty law must include everyone and must be immediately applicable. The amnesty proposal being voted on today does not guarantee these two objectives, especially given the drift of various judicial bodies to boycott the law and leave many pro-independence supporters out,” he warns.

Negotiations “until the last minute”

There are still negotiations, the statement adds, and JxCat will negotiate “until the last minute to introduce changes to achieve these objectives,” but if these modifications “are not accepted, Junts will not be able to vote in favor of the law,” it warns.

JxCat fears that the scope of the law will be limited by the actions of Judge Manuel García-Castellón, who is investigating former president Carles Puigdemont and ERC leader Marta Rovira for terrorism crimes, as well as the head of the investigative court number 1 of Barcelona, ​​Joaquín Aguirre, who issued an order on the ‘Volhov case’ in which he considers that Puigdemont and members of his entourage maintained “close personal relations” with Russia.

JxCat contemplates the possibility of forcing the bill not to be approved today, but rather to be debated again in committee, to incorporate amendments that protect it from possible restrictive judicial interpretations.

If the PSOE does not agree to introduce new changes to the wording, JxCat will not vote in favor of the law, which could send it again to the Justice Commission, which should prepare another opinion, before sending it again to the plenary session of Congress. .

The role of the judges keeps the negotiation in suspense

The first secretary of the Congress Board, Gerardo Pisarello (Sumar), has insisted that they are going to negotiate the amnesty law until the last moment “so that it cannot be subjected to any exploitation by party judges,” but He has shown confidence that he will move forward.

Pisarello has stressed, however, that the text of the proposal “is solid”, but there are different parliamentary groups that have presented proposals and that is what they are discussing, he noted in statements in the Chamber just hours before the vote this afternoon. the law.

In the event that the bill is rejected in plenary, it would return to the Justice Commission, where, in principle, there is a maximum period of one month for the opinion to come out of this commission again.

However, since this initiative has been processed urgently, Congressional lawyers would have to study whether or not to reduce this deadline.

Feijóo: the amnesty protects contacts with an “aggressive power”

The leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, stated this Tuesday that the amnesty law “protects the contacts of the independentists with an aggressor power, Russia.”

Feijóo has included this complaint in his criticism of the law, despite the fact that the current text does not condone the crime of treason, and has thus alluded to the investigation of the “Volhov case”, where the judge considers that the former president of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont and his entourage maintained relations with Russia, willing to support “economically and militarily” the independence of Catalonia.

The leader of the PP has introduced Javier de Andrés, president of the Basque PP and popular candidate for lehendakari, during an informative breakfast of Nueva Economía Fórum, in which he has denounced that the amnesty “radically breaks the equality of Spaniards”, it is done Tailored to a fugitive “in a Waterloo chalet”, its “fundamental objective is to dismantle the State” and includes good and bad terrorism.

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the PSOE are going to carry out, he has warned, “the greatest violation of dignity, equality and the separation of powers in a Western democracy” because “criminals are granted the privilege of writing the laws and amnesty themselves.”

According to the opposition leader, this is the tenth milestone in Sánchez’s series of “scandals”, which he has listed: handing over Pamplona to EH Bildu, promoting the “persecution of judges”, converting the languages ​​of the State into a “currency of change for those who want to prohibit the use of Spanish” in Catalonia, forgive the debt of the Generalitat or agree on the figure of an international mediator expert in guerrillas.

Also open to cutting the immigration policy into seventeen and handing it over to a party described as xenophobic by the Government, “coercing the freedom of movement of companies”, “insulting millions of Spaniards in the media” and creating new international conflicts.

According to Feijóo, all of this makes up a Spain “of inequality, of imposition, of privileges, of walls” that also affects economic development and employment and to which the PP and its regional presidents will be the alternative.

BY: ttu/efe