• Judgment 'procés'. The Supreme sentenced Junqueras to 13 years for sedition with embezzlement and between nine and 12 to the rest imprisoned for the 'procés'
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And the ruling confirmed the leaks, because that's what leaks are for. Whoever filters has an effect, usually political; in this case, dampen the reaction of separatism on the eve of uncertain elections. How far will the reaction go? They will be days of angry protests because the Movement - the only capital that deserves an ideology in Spain since 1975 - cannot recognize that the sentence is infinitely less harsh than it could have been. And because the pooper that turns on the light and sends the drunks home before sweeping the floor of the autonomy of fascistoid streamers has not yet arrived in that slum. You can still stretch the drunken epic of the irresponsible for a few more days. Then the hangover will come, but nobody worries: it will be the same State that tried to break the one that guarantees ibuprofen for everyone .

The holders will take the 13 years for Junqueras for a crime of sedition with embezzlement; the 12 of Romeva, Bassa and Turull; the 11 of Forcadell, the 10 of Forn and Rull or the nine of the Jordis. They sound blunt and of course they would be if they complied. But - and here comes the key to the sentence - the Supreme Court has dismissed the Prosecutor's request that the convicted persons serve at least half of their sentence before they can benefit from the third degree .

Recall that the prison powers were assigned to Catalonia by Felipe González, aka the Statesman . Recall that Oriol Pujol took to the streets at two months! If convicted Recall the rich hotel entertainment program organized by Lledoners for its alpha prisoners, revealed in this newspaper by Leyre Iglesias. The sentence says that "there is no danger" to force them to serve at least half of the sentence in their cell as God commands and demands a minimum decorum for the equality of all Spaniards before the law, including those who do not want to be So are your neighbors. The Supreme's refusal to demand from the Prosecutor's Office means that it will not be necessary to ask for pardons or invent unconstitutional amnesties : the magical application of 100.2 of the penitentiary regulation will suffice, that infamous strain for political favors that allows, if so provided by the competent Catalan authority, 'San Junqueras' eat the nougat at home like the rest of fellow martyrs.

It is what it is. But by then the elections will have passed.

The disqualification for public office, yes, no one takes it away. But no one can ban the stellar cameos of the damned in the next campaign of the Catalan, acclaimed as heroes of the cause, asking for the vote for their respective puppets. Meanwhile the constitutionalist Catalans , after the ephemeral hope of a couple of demonstrations and a victory of Citizens that Torrent and the PSC were in charge of sterilizing -Torrent plating the Parlament; Iceta delegitimizing by faca or montapollos the electoral triumph of the Spanish Catalans-, they will be forced to return to their usual state since Pujol began deploying his nation B: daily humiliation, silence and resignation . In the best case, ERC will govern them with Iceta as vice president, that this is Sánchez's plan hidden behind the "Now Spain" screen.

Let us grant that Marchena's prose prose is remarkable. That his refutation of the right to decide is powerful. That corroborates the use of violence to expose to the world the farce of the smile revolution. Let us even grant, in a generous trial of intentions, that Marchena wanted to support the rebellion criteria of her colleague Llarena, but that she had to pay the expensive price of unanimity by reducing the fundamental crime to sedition . But we cannot forget that the sedition stipulates an uprising against public order and Felipe VI did not speak on television to quell a tumult of soccer derby. We cannot forget that the legislator does not quantify the degree of violence necessary to liquidate the constitutional order in the type of rebellion: it is enough that the violence be certified. This sentence, on the other hand, clings to the insufficiency of the violence registered to devalue the criminal type. Sedition and all unanimous.

Everybody? Just the clothes, I'm afraid. Those who for years have fought head-on, with high personal cost, the independence coup that sought to alienate them in their own land will not be able to hide the disappointment. The sentence imposed by procés is four times lower than the highest imposed by the Supreme in Gürtel. The patisserie - let's call it gradual - seems undeniable. But while the Democrats end up with the bitten tongue, the benevolent objectives of recovery of coexistence now only depend on an implausible epiphany of sanity in the heart of fanaticism , which for now is already cutting streets and relaunching the insurrection, because they continue thinking not only They are innocent but they are superior. The only doubt remains of Puigdemont's next fate once the Euroorder is reactivated with a firm ruling, something already very difficult to ignore even for a Belgian judge; I bet on Russia of Putin, sanctuary of all the enemies of liberal democracy.

The great defeat of this sentence is the Prosecutor's Office . And his courage did not deserve this defeat. It was not deserved by the memory of the late José Manuel Maza, nor the firmness of Javier Zaragoza and Fidel Cadena. The second defeat is the honor of the State Advocacy , from which Edmundo Bal was expelled for not agreeing to this sedition of design finally endorsed. But the worst part is that such magnanimous guarantee does not deserve supremacists. Call me caveman, that a democratic state dilutes the punishment due to coup plotters who not only show no regret but swear that they will repeat the aggression seems dishonorable. If it served contrition and autonomy, I would take it for good: it is the 'realpolitik'. The unbearable thing would be for war to be added to dishonor. And that, imposed the order at last on the street and reigning the third degree in the life of the convicts, the cycle will resume where it stayed before the attempt : with another Artur Mas at the wheel , the nationalist odometer at zero , the key in contact with PSOE and PP in Madrid and all the time in the world ahead to repeat it again.

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