From the same day that the Supreme Court issued the conviction for sedition against the politicians who executed an institutional coup in 2017 approving the unilateral proclamation of independence of Catalonia, the Generalitat began the procedures to put the prison sentences without effect and facilitate that the condemned would leave prison as soon as possible. Catalonia is the only autonomous community that has transferred the powers of prisons, so it will be the address of the Lledoners prison together with the Department of Justice of the Catalan Government - on which Serveis Penitenciaris depends - who interpret in the most favorable way for the seditious the Penitentiary Regulation.

Therefore, with being a provocation for Justice, a mockery of the rule of law and a political scandal, nobody was surprised that last Tuesday, the day after the sentence was made public, President Quim Torra and the Minister Ester Capella They will approach Lledoners to visit and reassure former Vice President Oriol Junqueras, former consellers Jordi Turull, Joaquim Forn, Josep Rull and Raül Romeva and separatist activists Jordi Sànchez and Jordi Cuixart . All of them, as we publish today exclusively, already know that, probably, they will be able to access before their rightful place - having completed a quarter of the sentence - to a special situation that will allow them to enjoy a de facto freedom that will begin to process after the elections of November 10. This was communicated by the Minister Capella on Saturday in the dining room of the prison, where she met for two hours with the seven convicted, as did the director of the Susana Gracia prison yesterday at the meeting she held with them in the educational area of ​​the center. This is the reason why the seditious have been visibly happy since the Supreme Court ruling was known.

Given the legal and political scandal that would be triggered and due to the complexity of directly granting the third degree to convicts who do not assume that they have committed a serious crime, it is quite likely that the Generalitat will resort to article 100.2 of the Penitentiary Regulation that allows a special "flexibility" in the granting of privileges and cannot be blocked, at least immediately, by an appeal from the Prosecutor. That is why it is not understood that the Supreme Court ignored the request of the prosecutors to include in the sentence the express request that they not be granted the third degree before serving half the sentence. In the case of Junqueras and the four former consellers would have to wait for the first months of 2021. Now, to everyone's derision , they may be on the street in a few weeks.

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