The PSOE government is negotiating in several groups and separately with Junts and ERC to include some technical adjustments in the partial amendments to the amnesty law that will have to pass the filter this Thursday and vote in the specific presentation for this rule in Congress. The negotiations on the Horn of the Executive are led by the Minister of Justice and Relations with the Courts, Félix Bolaños, who this Wednesday established a seemingly inviolable red line regarding the cases that should be excluded from this clemency measure: “We believe that crimes Serious crimes must be excluded from the amnesty as they are already provided for in the draft law. It is a principle of which we are very convinced.” The PSOE, under pressure from Junts, the party of Carles Puigdemont, claims that legally convicted terrorist crimes should be exempt from the amnesty because, among other things, as the new report by the lawyer of the The Justice Commission has now recalled that this possible advantage is “contrary to European law”. Junts and ERC defend the opposite.
The PSOE government's negotiations with ERC and Junts to advance a package of partial changes with technical adjustments to the norm when presenting the amnesty law will be extended until 9:30 a.m. this Thursday, when the session begins in Congress This reduced body of the Judiciary Commission will give final approval next Tuesday to all corrections that have passed this first filter. The PSOE is in constant contact with the two Catalan independence parties to adopt some of their amendments, but not the nuclear one that triggered this last controversy in the law and which both Junts and ERC have suppressed in their respective texts and separately. , to remove terrorism crimes from the amnesty exclusions with a final sentence.
Minister Bolaños, who is leading the negotiations through his group in Congress, set this Wednesday criteria for his willingness to dialogue until the end, but also some red lines that seem insurmountable. Bolaños explained that the nine amendments jointly agreed and registered by PSOE, ERC, Sumar, EH Bildu and BNG “strengthen a law that is already solid, impeccable and absolutely in line with the Constitution.” And he confirmed that the exception to this clemency measure for terrorist crimes with a final verdict was a red line: “We believe that serious crimes must be excluded from the amnesty, since they are already provided for in the draft law.” Various sources from the leadership of the socialist Group stressed that this position is fixed and will not be negotiable and that they will only adopt the changes agreed with their partners, but that the contacts are not yet over and could even be maintained in the next Justice Commission on Tuesday and until the last plenary session on March 30. January.
However, Junts' position is also firm. Sources from this group's leadership in Congress justify their 12 separate amendments by demanding that the amnesty law “cover, without exception, all cases of persecution of the independence movement” and “have immediate implications for its application.” It should also be “more comprehensive, safer and based on European and international law on amnesties.”
This allusion by Junts to European law is in complete contradiction to the memory that the lawyer of the Judiciary Commission of Congress, Piedad García Escudero, has just expressed in a report, which, with regard to this exclusion of terrorism, concludes that ” The Union Directive in the area of finance and terrorism, adopted by Spain in February 2019, could be “contradictory” with European law.
The advisor to the Presidency of the Generalitat, Laura Vilagrà from the ERC, also admitted that the negotiations were being kept alive even on this controversial point: “We know that majorities in Congress are complicated, but at the moment they are working on it.” they have . and that these changes will be approved.” The Republican aide explained that she sees the talks “on the right track” and bets that in the end “all cases concerning the independence movement will be included,” referring to the Inclusion of the open cases on the democratic tsunami or the CDR, in which there are allegations of terrorism.
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At Junts they also insisted that they continue to work on this parliamentary path that the government considers closed for the time being, affirming: “Junts has always defended that the amnesty includes all those persecuted (tsunami, Operation Judas…) and also these .” who sit before the regional court. Treating the Catalan independence movement as terrorism is a legal aberration and a politicization of the judiciary.”
The increasingly erratic attitude of Junts keeps the government and its parties, PSOE and Sumar, on alert, since in the last few hours they have been unable to determine the direction of the first and close votes necessary for the presentation of this party this Thursday were planned. PSOE and Sumar have 15 secure votes compared to the 17 secure votes against PP and Vox. The executive needs 18 supports for its amendments to be successful and, to reach this level, depends on the ongoing vote of Podemos (one representative), ERC (one), Junts (one), EH Bildu (one) or the public transport (one). . If Junts decided to vote with PP and Vox against the amendments that would favor an amnesty for the leaders of the independence process, which would make little sense but is not excluded in the current political panorama, these corrections would go back and the Norm would fall That's how it remains, as the PSOE alone registered last November.
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