• Reforma Sánchez pushed ERC to amend the embezzlement and to eliminate "noise" during the electoral period

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

The second vice president of the Government,

Yolanda Díaz

, today marked a certain distance with President

Pedro Sánchez

but above all with

ERC

and all those who advocate a reform of the crime of embezzlement.

Asked in

Brussels

, where she is participating in a meeting of the

Council of the European Union

, the Minister of Employment has affirmed that "Unidas Podemos has its own position" on the issue of changing the Penal Code, making it clear that it is not the same as those who want to change it to decriminalize behaviors like those seen in Catalonia in 2016 or 2017.

"

United we can

have its own position and tomorrow they will know the amendments, but of course I tell them emphatically that we are not presenting anything that has to do with embezzlement," he explained to the media.

President Pedro Sánchez officially opened to a reform of the crime of embezzlement in the

Penal Code

at the request of ERC.

Sánchez had not wanted to speak for weeks, waiting to know the text of the amendments.

But on Constitution Day, he explained to the press that they are ready to do so as long as the changes do not benefit those convicted of corruption.

The object of this reform would be to leave in "unfair administration" practices now collected under embezzlement but through which there is no individual profit.

The law now punishes the use of public funds for everything that is not contemplated, whether or not there is personal gain, but contemplates higher penalties when it occurs.

A reform like the one ERC has in mind could help more than a dozen of its members avoid prison for their participation in calling an illegal referendum, which cost millions of euros but did not bring profit.

In United We Can there are different positions on the issue, but Díaz's environment does not seem favorable to an ad hoc reform to satisfy ERC.

"What we do is work for a country with more rights, more democratically advanced and that is where they will find us and our amendments. But United We Can not formulate amendments with a criminal offense known as embezzlement," said the vice president.

Their statement and formulation are deliberately aseptic, but the interpretation at this moment seems obvious: if they claim to work to give more rights and advance democracy, and

"absolutely" distance themselves from any amendment

on embezzlement, it is because they do not believe that this change, political and not legal, bring more rights or improve democracy

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