Rufián admits that he had to use the Budgets as "lever" to force Sánchez to end the crime of sedition

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The ERC spokesman in Congress, Gabriel Rufián, acknowledged this Saturday that his party used the vote for the 2023

(PGE) project as a "lever of force" to force the coalition government to eliminate crime of sedition for which the leaders of the Catalan independence 'procés' were convicted.

"Unfortunately, many times we have to use force levers for the PSOE to move, even in commitments that, in fact, are theirs," Rufián explained in statements to RNE, before noting that the legislature is coming to an end and this commitment remained unfulfilled.

This bill of the PSOE and Unidas Podemos, which has already passed two votes in plenary session of Congress, one of them at one in the morning, will have its next scale on December 9 with the presentation of the amendments to the articles, And there it will be seen if any parliamentary group is committed to taking advantage to also modify the crime of embezzlement, as ERC also requests.

dizzy and lie

The ERC spokesman, who initially separated the budgets from the end of sedition, has insisted that his formation does not seek to use these "external levers" and has blamed the

for this extreme.

"If this is so, it is because they are the ways, forms and times of the PSOE," he said, expressing his desire to be able to sit down with the Socialists or the Government itself, in coalition with United We Can.

"But then they make us dizzy, they even lie to us," he lamented.

Along these lines, he considers it "important" that the elimination of sedition be completed before the end of the year because the issues that his party considers "good" have to be done "quickly."

"There is no reason to lengthen things artificially," he added, before assuring that, although they "trust" the PSOE, it cannot be "obviated" that there are "progressive" issues that "cost a lot."

"Surgical" with embezzlement

Referring to the amendment referring to embezzlement, Rufián has insisted on being "discreet" with the negotiation, while acknowledging that it is "extremely difficult" to achieve a "balance" so that it does not end up benefiting those convicted of corruption.

"You have to be surgical", he has emphasized himself.

In parallel, he has advocated that the Penal Code not be used "as a toy" in the hands of a judge "with certain ideological interests."

Gamarra: "They are the budgets of impunity"

The general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, has responded to Rufián, assuring that "the 2023 Budgets are those of impunity for those who broke the constitutional order.

Gamarra, in statements to the media in Palma, considered that Rufián's confession "confirms what all Spaniards knew, but that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has denied up to now, which is that, indeed, ERC put a price on its support for the PGE, impunity for its leaders, in exchange for the budgets".

"A price", has criticized the general secretary of the PP that "Sánchez accepted, Pedro Sánchez accepted to weaken the State, give impunity to the ERC leaders, repeal the crime of sedition and deliver the penal code, in order to survive a year in The Moncloa".

For the

, "Spain deserves something else, a president of the Government who respects Spain and the Spanish people and who does not put a price on their permanence and survival, in exchange for what should be the constitutional framework and the framework of coexistence for all" .

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