Politics The PP mobilizes its artillery against pardons to warm up Colón
Catalonia Oriol Junqueras gives oxygen to Pedro Sánchez, supports pardons and questions the unilateral way
The pardons as the highlight of the day and of the control session in the Government in the absence of Pedro Sánchez. A measure of grace that in the opinion of the opposition only works in the interests of the Prime Minister who now, with the approval of the imprisoned leader of ERC, Oriol Junqueras, intends to "move from an illegal unilateral referendum to an illegal one agreed" with Esquerra. "The pardons," the popular ones have warned, "will only lead to a re-offense, because the condemned do not want a pardon but an amnesty." For the PP parliamentary spokesperson, Cuca Gamarra, it is "outrageous" that the Government "accepts as an interlocutor a convicted of sedition", referring to the foreseeable presence of Junqueras at the bilateral negotiating table with Catalonia.
Faced with the harsh onslaught of the opposition, First Vice President Carmen Calvo has refused to answer any of the PP's requests for an explanation, arguing that the pardons have not yet been granted.
"It is something that has not happened," he said, thus rejecting "preventive parliamentary control."
This attitude of the number two of the Executive, which replicates the one defended yesterday in the Senate by the Minister of Justice, is interpreted by the popular as a "joke of the citizens" whom, according to the opposition, the Government " take for fools. "
Gamarra insists that "the Spaniards do not want a justice trampled on by the Government or a Government that is allied with criminals or a president that mistakes justice for revenge."
None of these reproaches has made a dent in Calvo for whom "the best justice is not always the best policy."
Calvo has urged Gamarra to "worry" about his party colleagues who do not plan to attend the "second part of the Columbus photo" on Sunday, in obvious reference to the presidents of Galicia and Andalusia, Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla, who claim to support the demonstration on the 13th against pardons but will not attend it.
The first vice president has taken refuge again in the mantra of "the photo of Columbus" and in the common strategy of PP and Cs with the extreme right of Vox to pave the way that will be followed in the coming days to face the avalanche of criticism against pardons.
Thus, Calvo accuses the popular of "having no alternative and pretending to continue to confront Spain with Catalonia."
In fact, number two insists on blaming the previous PP government for defying secessionism to the state and the Constitution, ignoring the illegalities committed by the pro-independence leaders condemned by the Supreme Court.
Thus, he insists that what is happening now is "the result of the PP government disaster."
For Calvo, the discomfort that is expressed in the Plaza de Colón will be an example of "triviality and importance" because it will show that the opposition has no alternative to resolve the conflict between Catalonia and the State.
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