• Congress: The Minister of Justice announces that the pardons for those sentenced by 1-O will begin to be processed next week

  • The opposition.Pablo Casado explodes before the processing of pardons: "Sánchez intends to destroy the institutions"

Citizens described yesterday as "inadmissible" that the government should not grant pardons to "the separatist leaders who carried out a coup," they officially explained from the leadership.

The announcement of the Minister of Justice in the Plenary of Congress outraged the leadership of the liberal party, which for months has maintained an excellent relationship with the Executive and has closed important agreements with Pedro Sánchez, especially for the latest extensions of the state of alarm .

However, from Cs they decided not to break with the Government for the moment, as confirmed by the management to EL MUNDO.

Of course, they consider that, as a prominent member of the Cs Executive assured in conversation with this newspaper, trying to negotiate the State Budget with ERC and with Junts per Catalunya "using pardons is scoundrels".

"It is not acceptable," they continued to explain from Cs headquarters, that the Minister of Justice announced the processing of pardons "as if it were a negotiating tool with Laura Borràs [JxCat spokesperson], who had not asked him anything about that".

Even so, and despite the outrage, Cs considers that yesterday's movement by Sánchez does not break the board of the budget negotiation.

In addition, as they also confirmed from Cs, the Executive has not yet called them to start talking about the State accounts.

"There will be gestures to the independentistas for many days - they added from Ciudadanos - but we have to wait for the final photo: either with the independentistas or some sensible accounts with us."

That is to say, Inés Arrimadas insists on the thesis that has already been transferred to the Government: there is only one way to negotiate the State accounts, with the sovereignists who only seek the interest of part of their territory, or with Cs.

The hand therefore continues to be extended to the Government so that it has "an alternative path to separatist blackmail."

It is Sánchez who will have to choose "if he wants the future of the Spanish to be decided by Bildu and ERC with privileges for condemned politicians" or to negotiate the accounts with Ciudadanos.

The liberal party also announced that if the government ends up granting pardons, Cs will appeal it to the Supreme Court.

Arrimadas is going to present an initiative in Congress to prohibit pardons for those convicted of sedition because it considers "intolerable that politicians can have privileges for the mere fact of being, whether they are convicted of sedition or for crimes of corruption."

The president of the PP, Pablo Casado, confirmed that his party will also appeal to the Supreme Court any pardon to the secessionists.

"It is immoral that Sánchez is negotiating with the independentistas to stay in power for another year," he emphasized.

Like the PP and Cs, Vox also announced that it will raise this appeal before the Supreme Court if the pardons are made effective.

The opposition leader held a press conference in the Lower House regarding the "extraordinary gravity" of the latest government decisions regarding the Catalan secessionists, on the day that "Pedro Sánchez flees to

Brussels

for a canceled summit."

Casado declared all ties with the Government broken to renew the General Council of the Judiciary: "The PP is incompatible with giving pardons and modifying the Penal Code on demand for those who have committed serious crimes."

In his view, "destroying the institutions is what the government wants."

"I do not understand that some gentlemen who give a blow to the

Constitution

receive de facto amnesty through legal reform," he added.

For Casado, "the institutional drift" of Spain "is already touching the limits of what a democracy can bear", referring to the Government's negotiation with Bildu, the reform of the Penal Code to lower the penalties for the crime of sedition and the processing of the pardons of the secessionist leaders.

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