Cristina Rubio Barcelona
Barcelona
Updated Tuesday, January 30, 2024-22:16
The amnesty, the true jewel in the crown for the independence movement after tying the investiture of
Pedro Sánchez
with the PSOE , has once again uncovered the case of thunder between
Esquerra and Junts,
two parties that do not agree even on the decriminalization of the
process
, their great demand for this legislature.
The
neo-convergent
rejection of the bill has provoked the anger of
Oriol Junqueras himself.
Present in the guest gallery of
Congress
, he did not hesitate to attack
Carles Puigdemont
's party , he openly reproached it for having left "hundreds of innocent people stranded," as he said, and called his vote an "error."
Criticism that the former president of the
Generalitat
himself has tried to counteract with an extensive message on social networks in which he tried to shore up his position and took aim at "a judicial system where judges, prosecutors, police and journalists compete to subvert democracy." according to his words.
Puigdemont has also justified the rejection of Junts with the same argument as
Míriam Nogueras
and has demanded a "comprehensive, complete and without exclusions" amnesty to stop the "patriotic impulse" of judges and prosecutors in another attempt to distance themselves from
ERC
. All after mentioning cases such as the Tsunami, the CDR or the Russian plot of the process and accusing the "robed coup plotters" of wanting to "subvert constitutional legality to replace it with toga legality."
So much so that the
neo-convergent
leader has even denounced "the unbreathable climate" that has led to the failure of the amnesty negotiations and has called the "Madrid system" a "black hole for democracy", in reference to the Spanish judicial leadership.
"We have a few days to rebuild the initial consensus,"
Puigdemont
has warned about a law that "must include everyone persecuted by this machinery of crushing fundamental rights that has become - for pro-independence Catalans - the Spanish judiciary."
Harsh reproaches that clash with ERC
's story
, open a new battle and once again show the rupture in the independence movement. In fact, Esquerra had carefully designed this Tuesday's day, a day that should be "historic" for the interests of the Republicans: Junqueras went to the Lower House with the new vice president of the Generalitat,
Laura Vilagrà;
while the Catalan president,
Pere Aragonès
, took center stage from Brussels with several high-level meetings in his particular crusade for Catalan in Europe. Nothing could be further from the truth: the ERC leader has had to witness in person and from the front row the new blow that Junts dealt him in the mouth of
Míriam Nogueras
after announcing his rejection of the Amnesty law proposal.
"Possibly we are the only ones who are not tied hand and foot," the neo-convergent
launched
before making a strategic pause in her speech, drinking water and looking up at the Republican bench in the middle of the debate. A complete slam of the door on ERC's strategy and a "good and robust" bill, according to the Republicans, who voted in favor of the text despite not incorporating their own amendments.
The Government of
Pere Aragonès
also criticized the neo-convergent maneuver yesterday and considered that the Amnesty Law has entered a "risk zone", indirectly and veiledly blaming Puigdemont's party.
It should be remembered that ERC and Junts separately negotiated the bulk of the text with the
Government
and there was no agreement on the amendments to the law either. In fact, yesterday's clash between the pro-independence parties does nothing other than accentuate the existing pre-electoral climate in Catalonia.