The Minister of Transport and Secretary of Organization of the PSOE, José Luis Ábalos, this Sunday again opened the door for the Executive chaired by Pedro Sánchez to approve the pardons for the leaders convicted of leading the

procés

and the

pro-independence coup

in

Catalonia

because " the

Government

has the legal obligation to process pardons and the moral obligation to alleviate tensions that could damage coexistence. "

In an interview with the Catalan newspaper

La Vanguardia

, the socialist leader emphasizes that "within respect for the Constitution and the laws, what is necessary must be done to reengage Catalonia to the common project. Any gesture that contributes to political normality and reconciliation and coexistence is positive ".

As he did at the end of October in another interview with

El Periódico de Catalunya

,

José Luis Ábalos

does not openly advocate that the

Council of Ministers

approve the pardons, he does not pronounce on their resolution.

But he does link in his answers these grace measures pending analysis with measures aimed at "easing tensions" and which "contribute to political normalization" in Catalonia.

The strong man of the PSOE in the Government does show himself in favor of reforming the crime of sedition, a reform that "will be done sooner rather than later" because he considers it necessary to "correct some gaps in the Penal Code" to "allow it to be equated with those of other countries "of the environment, where" a crime equivalent to that of a sedition not carried out by the military is not punished with more than four years in prison.

Ábalos trusts that the elections of February 14 in Catalonia will open a new political scenario, because "coexistence cannot be placed on the edge of the precipice and continue to push into the void."

And he insists again, as different leaders of the PSC have done on innumerable occasions, that the Catalan socialists will not support any Catalan government that defends independence or self-determination, thus ruling out a possible tripartite.

The PP spokesperson in Congress, Cuca Gamarra, responded to the Minister of Transportation that pardons are "the price for your votes" to carry out the General State Budgets.

"And the moral obligation of not leaving the non-independence Catalans alone?", The

popular

leader reproached

Ábalos, adding that "morals and ethics were lost the day they agreed with Bildu and independentistas."

"It is the price for their votes," he considers, according to Europa Press.

Gamarra also asked the socialist leader to "stop giving affection to his partners in the direction of the State, as Secretary of Organization of what was the PSOE, and begin, as Minister of Transport, to relieve the truckers who still do not get to home or to stop the leak of the virus that is Barajas ".

The candidate of Ciudadanos in the Catalan elections, Carlos Carrizosa, has argued for his part that it is not possible to speak of pardons for politicians condemned by the illegal referendum of 1-O "if they continue to speak of repression, fascism, that they are victims of injustice, arbitrariness and revenge ".

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