• Government The ministers want pardons "as soon as possible" to stop the political attrition

  • Politics Pedro Sánchez asks the Spanish for "magnanimity and understanding" with the pardons to the prisoners of 1-O

The Minister of Social Rights, Ione Belarra, has considered this Thursday that it would be "an incongruity" to detain Carles Puigdemont and the rest of the fugitives in the event that they return to Spain.

"I do not know how I am going to defend that if we precisely want to end the process of prosecution," said Belarra in an interview with Rac1 in which she insisted that "betting on pardons is allowing prisoners to leave."

"It would be an incongruity of enormous size," said the minister, who recalled that Unidos Podemos always defended the position of dialogue to resolve the Catalan conflict.

Thus, the opinion of the morados contrasts with that of Moncloa, where it is considered that Puigdemont should be tried as soon as he arrives in Spain.

The reform, "as soon as possible"

The departure from Spain of Carles Puigdemont, Clara Ponsatí, Toni Comín and Marta Rovira, among others, responds according to Belarra to the prosecution of the matter itself.

Thus, he has been in favor of their return: "It is not normal that they are not in Spain."


On the other hand, the members of the coalition government are negotiating "insistently" the reform of the crime of sedition to bring it to the Congress of Deputies "as soon as possible", as announced by the minister.



The reform "is being negotiated between partners, within the Government, and we are going to try to bring it to Congress as soon as possible because it is a proposal in which we firmly believe," he specified.


Belarra has avoided specifying dates.

Will the modification arrive before summer?

"It is a bit risky to close and tie your hands with the deadlines," he admitted.

PP: the reform will have "names and surnames"

The PP already accuses the Government of having a reform of the crime of sedition that will have "names and surnames" in place because its object is none other than to protect Sánchez's intention to pardon those convicted by 1-O and even to raid the return of the escapees Carles Puigdemont, Clara Ponsatí and Toni Comín who, according to the popular ones, will be reinforced by the "rinse of the Penal Code" that "is already being processed" and by the restitution of the immunity of the three escapees by the General Court of the EU in resolution of June 2.

The PP assumes that the Government advances unstoppable in the modification that will be "a tailor-made suit" for the condemned and for the fled. Otherwise, the reform would be carried out when the term for serving sentences without pardons has ended and the last of the fugitives has appeared. Only in this way could it be ensured, as the PP parliamentary spokesperson insists, that it does not bear names and surnames

The Minister of Justice, Juan Carlos Campo, insists that sedition and rebellion must be reformed in order to accommodate the criminal offense contemplated in the Spanish Code to that of other European legislation and cites the German, French, Italian and Portuguese. Thus, it indicates that the legislative initiative to reform sedition is a weapon available to the Government to "defend the public interest" but that "it will not be used to benefit specific individuals." "That will not happen", emphasizes Campo for whom "if a crime is not modified in 200 years and ends up sanctioning outdated conduct, it must be reformulated if what is intended is that it continues to be useful and not a mere relic difficult to apply."

Campo insists, therefore, on the advisability of proceeding with this reform in order to take a further step in legal harmonization to facilitate police and judicial cooperation in Europe.

The minister thus advocates reviewing crimes against the Constitution and public order.

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