Marta Belver Madrid
Madrid
Updated Monday, January 29, 2024-14:57
Catalonia The judge tightens the fence on Russia's contacts with Puigdemont
More demands Junts unsettles the PSOE with more demands on the amnesty: "It's going to continue screwing us, it can't last long like that"
The PSOE appreciates a "very clear objective" in the order of the Court of Instruction number 1 of Barcelona known this Monday that tightens the siege on Russia's contacts with the former
president
of the Generalitat of Catalonia
Carles Puigdemont
. "Every time the Executive moves a move, a judge moves a move," say sources from the party's national leadership, suggesting an attempt to boycott the Amnesty Law that is being voted on this Tuesday in Congress.
At Ferraz's headquarters they suggest that the times of the judiciary are "empirically aligned" with those of the legislature because this resolution has been adopted after his group agreed last week to include in the text that will give legal coverage to said grace measure the demand from Junts and ERC to shield all those investigated for terrorism in the
process
. This change - introduced via parliamentary amendments - would benefit those involved in the Tsunami Democràtic cause, among them the politician who fled to Belgium after the unilateral declaration of independence to evade the action of Justice along with a dozen other people.
From the socialist leadership they consider "terrible" the "mere fact that judicial decisions that are made at the mercy of what happens in the legislative [power] have influence in Congress." Even so, they reaffirm their "respect" for the judges after the dust raised by the criticism of the third vice president of the Government,
Teresa Ribera,
of the magistrate
Manuel García-Castellón
for insisting on charging Puigdemont with terrorism.
"There will be opinions, decisions that we like more or less, but we are not going to move from there. Never," said PSOE spokesperson
Esther Peña
. "What we are for is that this Amnesty Law, this law of reunion, can be approved tomorrow at the headquarters of national sovereignty and that from there we leave behind the trauma that what happened in Catalonia," he added.
The head of the investigating court number 1 of Barcelona, magistrate
Joaquín Aguirre
, has decided to extend the investigation of the Russian plot of the
process
. In what is known as
the Volhov case
, former CDC leader
Víctor Terradellas
and the head of Puigdemont's office,
Josep Lluís Alay,
both close collaborators of the former
president
, are involved .