The Government breathes a sigh of relief.

The decision of the European Parliament to lift the immunity of Carles Puigdemont, Toni Comín and Clara Ponsatí is a sign of "the strength of the rule of law in Spain" and Europe shows "respect for the work of the Spanish Justice."

And what is most important for Moncloa, the analysis they make is that with this opinion, Brussels supports its policy of dialogue with the independentists, with Catalonia.

"The problems of Catalonia are solved in Spain and not in Europe", has sentenced the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Arancha González Laya.

Moncloa takes advantage of the decision to withdraw Puigdemont's immunity to assert the dialogue table defended by Pedro Sánchez as a way to solve the Catalan problem. "It is the line that the Government of Spain has been maintaining, reaching out to all political forces Catalan ".

For the Government, the message launched by the European Parliament is "dialogue" and "negotiation", that is, as they understand it, an endorsement of the dialogue table that met for the first time on February 26, 2020, with Pedro Sánchez and Quim Torra sitting on it, and that, however, due to the pandemic and the Catalan elections, has been bypassed.

However, the Executive recently committed to ERC in Congress, supporting PSOE and United We Can, an initiative of the independentists, to resume this dialogue table after the Catalan elections, which will be held a month ago.

Thus, satisfaction in the Executive, at least in the socialist wing, since Unidad Podemos voted against lifting this immunity.

A new clash within the coalition in which Moncloa wanted to make it clear that the prevailing position is that of Foreign Affairs.

State issues are the territory of the PSOE no matter how much the

purple ones

try to uncheck themselves.

The PSOE: "We can will have to explain his vote"

The sense of the vote of the five MEPs of United We Can (

Eugenia Rodríguez Palop

,

Idoia Villanueva

,

Ernest Urtasun

,

Sira Rego

and

Manu Pineda

), despite the fact that the Government does not publicly mention it, it has caused discomfort in the PSOE.

The socialist spokesperson in Europe,

Iratxe García

, has disfigured the formation led by Pablo Iglesias his position.

"Podemos will have to explain why he has voted what he has voted, why he has not made it possible for the Spanish Justice to do its job. It is their responsibility and they are the ones who have to give explanations to the Spanish and European citizens."

The president of the socialist group in the European Parliament considers that the decision of this institution is a "victory for democracy and the rule of law", in line with the message sent from Europe.

At a press conference from

Brussels

, García has shown the commitment of his training to not hinder the work of Justice, in a veiled message to his partner in the Government, highlighting the "importance of cooperation with Justice. We could not do otherwise. to cooperate and not block the action of Justice ".

For his part, Laya has considered that the Parliament's vote makes it clear that no MEP can "take advantage of his condition to appear before national courts for violations of national laws."

Pablo Casado: "The EPP guarantees the rule of law"

The president of the PP, Pablo Casado, has written down the decision in his party's locker: "The EPP guarantees the rule of law in Europe and Spain."

For the opposition leader, the European Parliament has given a blow to Unidos Podemos, Izquierda Unida, PNV and Bildu and, indirectly, Pedro Sánchez, for being his partner.

"The partners of the Sánchez Government vote against lifting Puigdemont's immunity to prevent him from responding to the Spanish justice for giving a blow to legality and national unity. But they have not succeeded," Pablo Casado noted in his account official Twitter.

Likewise, the spokesperson for the Spanish delegation of the PP in the European Parliament, Dolors Montserrat, has assured that the Community Parliament has launched "a clear message: those who, anywhere in the European Union, violate the laws and seek to break the rule of law. they must answer before the Justice ".

"There can be no impunity anywhere in the EU for those who commit crimes in a member state. Immunity is not impunity," added the popular spokeswoman.

Monserrat added that he hopes that the reform of the euro order will be accelerated and that, from now on, the Belgian justice will "take note of the decision of the European Parliament to proceed with the delivery of the fugitives to the Spanish justice system."

"Another decision would be unjustifiable", has settled.

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