• Politics Sánchez gives wings to the embezzlement reform to please separatism

  • Penal Code Unidas Podemos marks distances with the reform of the crime of embezzlement that the Government is negotiating with ERC

Pedro Sánchez is determined to go all out.

If the polls only offer him a chance to repeat his mandate with an alliance supported by his

purple

partner , Unidas Podemos, and the external support of independentistas and

abertzales

, he will bet on tying her down by concession even if it means stretching the seams of

the Penal Code

until the edge of the burst.

The President of the Government is already willing to reform the crime of embezzlement for the benefit of those who committed crimes in 2017, defying the State in order to finally whitewash the leaders of the secessionist attempt, whom he has already pardoned from their prison sentences.

This is how he explained it yesterday before the journalists in the act of homage to the Constitution.

Sánchez also affirmed that the Government, if necessary, will proceed to make "technical adjustments" in the

Law of Guarantees of Sexual Freedom

, known as the law of

only if it is yes

to avoid continuing the downward revisions of the sentences imposed on sexual offenders.

It is the first time that it is open to modifications, since until now it was waiting for the

Prosecutor 's Office

and the Supreme will alleviate the scandal.

But before the new revisions it goes one step further.

He also insisted on the amendments presented by the PSOE to the Trans Law project to modify the aspects of it that refer to minors.

And he warned that if the aforementioned amendments are not approved, the law will not go ahead.

Now, however, the objective is focused on embezzlement trying to erase

the crime of illicit use of public funds from the curriculum of the leaders of the process and thus pave the way so that, for example, Oriol Junqueras can run in the next elections

.

There is only one condition to proceed with the plan: that ERC submit before Friday, the date on which the amendment term to the bill that will repeal the crime of sedition ends, an amendment demanding the review of embezzlement.

The Government, as confirmed yesterday by the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, has already studied the ways to carry out this modification without, he assures, causing the undesired effect of ending up lowering the sentences for those convicted of corruption.

In other words: proceed to a meticulous review so that it expressly benefits those convicted of the

process

.

Homologation with Europe

In this way, the Government would close the circle of concessions to the independence movement with the hope of putting an end to the secessionist process by agreeing to put a lock on what ERC calls the judicialization of the conflict between Catalonia and the State.

Sánchez considers that in this way he will have the support of independentistas, nationalists and

abertzales

if he needs it to be invested again after the next call to the polls.

The plan on which the Government works if ERC puts on the table a proposal to modify the crime goes through reusing the argument used to justify the repeal of sedition: the homologation of types with the countries of the European environment.

Government sources explain that it is about coupling the Penal Code to the laws of the residents in this regard.

And they cite

France

,

Italy

and

Portugal

, countries in which there is a greater difference regarding embezzlement depending on whether or not there is personal profit.

In short, the legal object to be protected - public money - is ignored in order to focus on the destination given to the embezzled money.

In any case, the line that separates some cases from others is extremely fine and if what is involved is agreeing on a more lax law for those who, spuriously using everyone's money, have not enriched themselves personally, it is clear that by At

least one of the beneficiaries of the reform would be the former president of the PSOE and the Junta de Andalucía,

José Antonio Griñán

, sentenced to nine years in prison for the ERE case.

Sánchez, waiting for ERC to take the step, is already preparing the ground by sweetening the foreseeable modification with the promise that with it they will be in a position to "open a new stage in Catalonia", focused on politics and without interference from the Justice.

The president is determined to take advantage of these transfers to the point of making Catalonia "a political asset" and, consequently, electoral in his favor.

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