ERC confirms that it will present amendments to modify embezzlement and that "independence supporters are not persecuted"

Esquerra Republicana has confirmed today the script advanced by

in the official celebrations of the Constitution regarding embezzlement.

The nationalist party will present this Friday in Congress a series of amendments to reform this crime within the planned modification of the Penal Code to repeal sedition and change that of aggravated public disorder.

A new pro-independence demand put on the bilateral negotiation table that the Government has ended up assuming.

The general secretary of ERC,

, has been in charge of announcing a parliamentary initiative that aims to strengthen independence impunity by reforming the crime of embezzlement so that it is not "used to repress and persecute the independence movement and political dissidence".

Without offering details about the content of the amendments, the Republicans have stressed that their intention is to change in the Penal Code the measures approved by the Government of

in 2015, in response, in part, to the sovereignist consultation that he held in 2014 in Catalonia the Generalitat of Artur Mas.

That reform approved by the PP and with the opposition en bloc against it expanded the criminal type to include behaviors typical of misappropriation and unfair administration.

Until then, embezzlement required that the embezzled public money be used for one's own profit or that of third parties.

With the 2015 reform, the crime of imprisonment was included, with barely up to 12 years in the most serious cases, for the official and public office that caused damage to public funds.

A measure that a few days ago the president of the Generalitat,

, already announced that they would try to eliminate to move towards the "dejudicialization" of the political and social life in Catalonia and limit possible "arbitrariness of the State".

WHO WOULD BENEFIT?

The reform could benefit at least 24 pro-independence politicians currently being investigated, prosecuted or convicted of this illegal criminal offense due to 1-O, including former President and Vice President of Catalonia Carles Puigdemont and Oriol Junqueras, respectively.

Among those directly benefited by the eventual reform would be the pro-independence leaders convicted by the Supreme Court (TS) for embezzlement and sedition: Junqueras, sentenced to 13 years in prison and 13 years of disqualification;

and the former directors

, Jordi Turull and Dolors Bassa, who were sentenced to 12 years in prison as well as disqualification.

In their case, their jail sentences were pardoned, but those of disqualification remain in force.

In addition to those already convicted, a reform of embezzlement would affect Puigdemont and former councilors Toni Comín, Clara Ponsatí and Lluís Puig, all on the run but claimed by the 'procés' instructor, Pablo Llarena, for said crime and sedition.

They are joined by the president of ERC in the Parliament and former general secretary of the Vice-presidency and Economy of the Generalitat,

é, and the also deputy and former secretary of Finance, Lluís Salvadó, to whom the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) has sent to trial, for embezzlement, prevarication and serious disobedience for the preparations for 1-O.

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