• Junts launches an order to the PSOE hours before voting on the amnesty: "Either introduce changes or they will not vote in favor"

  • Pact Sánchez's agreement with Puigdemont on the dynamite amnesty completely destroys the PSOE-PP anti-terrorist pact

  • Justice Two judges place Puigdemont outside Sánchez's amnesty for terrorism and for "harming the vital interests of Spain"

  • Voting How many votes does the amnesty need to be approved in Congress

The Plenary Session of

Congress

debates this Tuesday starting at 3:00 p.m. the approval of the

Amnesty Law

. It was promoted by the

PSOE

within the framework of the agreements with

Junts

that allowed Sánchez's investiture, but its approval is not assured.

The differences between both partners on the scope of the final text could result in pro-independence deputies not supporting the ruling. As this is an organic law,

176 votes in favor are needed

, so if Junts does not support the text, the law would return to the Justice Commission and the parliamentary debate would be reopened.

"Junts has always defended that the Amnesty Law

must include everyone and must be immediately applicable

. The amnesty proposal being voted on today does not guarantee these two objectives, especially given the drift of various judicial bodies to boycott the law and leaving many pro-independence supporters out," the pro-independence party led by Puigdemont, who fled from Spanish justice and who would be the main beneficiary of this law, said in a statement this Tuesday.

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15:00

Fejoó: "The Government is on assisted respiration"

"The Government is on assisted respiration," the leader of the PP , Alberto Núñez Feijóo,

assured this Tuesday

upon entering the Congress of Deputies, where the debate and the amnesty vote are about to begin. Feijóo alludes to the fact that Junts' affirmative vote is not guaranteed despite the fact that the amnesty law is part of the agreements between the PSOE and Puigdemont's party that made Sánchez's investiture as President of the Government possible.

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14:52

What happens if the Amnesty Law does not go ahead this afternoon?

In the event that there is no agreement and Junts overturns the ruling, the text of the amnesty law proposal

would return to the Justice Commission

and could not be sent to the Upper House. Puigdemont's seven deputies can choose to vote against the text or to abstain, but in both cases this afternoon's ruling would not go ahead.

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14:44

ERC, Junts, CUP and COMMONS register the creation in Parliament of an observatory of the amnesty law

Although at this time the approval of the Amnesty Law in Congress is up in the air, the groups of ERC, Junts, the CUP and the commons in the Catalan Parliament have registered this Tuesday the proposal to create a functioning working group as an observatory on the application of the amnesty law.

This observatory, which will be created within the framework of the Parliament's Institutional Affairs Commission, will have the objective of

verifying the application of the new law that is approved in the Congress of Deputies

, the four parties have indicated in a statement. The next Institutional Affairs Commission will be formed and work will begin once the amnesty law is approved.

Its function will be to compile "all requests and resolutions to courts within the framework of the application of the Amnesty Law", to "monitor" and "accompany" the cases and, finally, to draw conclusions "on the degree of application of the law".

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14:38

The PP warns the Government that it will take to Europe that the amnesty law may include terrorism crimes

The spokesperson for the Popular Group in Congress,

Miguel Tellado,

warned the PSOE this Tuesday that it will take what is happening with the

Amnesty Law

to Europe and open the door to amnesty for terrorism crimes. According to him he has stressed, it is the PP's "obligation" to convey the "necessary" information so that the European Commission can act.

In a press conference in Congress, after the meeting of the Board of Spokespersons, Tellado indicated that Europe "looks closely and with concern" at what is happening in Spain with the processing of that norm

, "which also week after "This week puts increasingly worrying considerations on the table, such as the fact that it could serve to amnesty terrorist crimes, as Sánchez's associates intend."

"And therefore, it is our obligation to convey to Europe all the necessary information so that the European Commission can act within the margin of its powers," declared Tellado, who has guaranteed that the PP will go "to all possible instances to deal with to stop the Amnesty Law", among them the European Commission, which is a "fundamental forum" that "observes with deep concern what is happening in Spain". Tellado has stressed that all terrorism is condemnable because "there is no good or bad terrorism" as, in his opinion, the PSOE tries to make it seem.

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14:34

Two judges place Puigdemont outside Sánchez's amnesty

The amnesty has not yet come into force and is already accumulating judicial decisions that will hinder or directly prevent its application. Two of the most compromised investigations for the former president of the Generalitat, Carles Puigdemont, and his trusted core are

the cause of Tsunami Democràtic

and

the Volhov operation.

Both procedures were extended yesterday by their respective instructors, the judge of the National Court Manuel García-Castellón and the magistrate of Barcelona, ​​Joaquín Aguirre.

More details, in

this information from Ángela Martialay

.

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14:24

CS asks the PSOE to "not let itself be dragged by the blackmail of Junts" with the amnesty law

The leader of Ciudadanos (CS) in the Parliament, Carlos Carrizosa, asked the PSOE this Tuesday to "not let itself be dragged by the blackmail of Junts in Congress" and

not accept the amendments that the independentistas have made as a condition

to support the amnesty law. JxCat has warned that it will not vote in favor of the amnesty law proposal, in the vote scheduled for this afternoon in Congress, if the PSOE does not accept changes to protect it from possible "boycott" attempts by "various judicial bodies." ".

From the Parliament, Carrizosa has urged the PSOE to ignore JxCat's "blackmail" to try to protect a

law that would grant "impunity to those who destabilized Catalonia."

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14:16

Junts' order to the PSOE: threatens to vote 'no' to the amnesty law

"The PSOE kept a gap open through which new changes could be introduced in the Amnesty law proposal to satisfy the demands of Junts and those of Puigdemont are determined to take advantage of it. The pro-independence formations benefiting from the grace measure do not give up on "his efforts to shield the absolute erasure of any crime committed under the umbrella of the

process

or that was related, even distantly, to it and, in addition, to short-circuit any obstacle that the judges could impose on the immediate and extensive application of the amnesty."

This is how this chronicle by Marisa Cruz and Marta Belver

begins .

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13:55

Alegría praises "the Government's firm commitment to the Amnesty Law"

The Minister of Education, Vocational Training and Sports and spokesperson for the Executive,

Pilar Alegría

, praised this Tuesday the "firm commitment of the Government to the Amnesty Law" because it is a norm that

"guarantees coexistence" in Catalonia and Catalonia with the rest from Spain

.

This was said at the press conference after the Council of Ministers when he was asked about the rule that this afternoon will be subject to debate and vote in the Congress of Deputies. Although there are no guarantees that the norm will be approved because Junts assures that if there are no changes in the text

they will vote against the current document

that the Justice Commission has submitted to the Plenary.

Alegría also expressed "maximum respect" for the powers, because now it is the legislature that is debating the initiative, and delved into the "objective" of the rule, which is "coexistence." In addition, he stressed the

"guarantee of legal legality" of the norm

and stressed the "maximum respect" for the Judicial Branch and the Legislative Branch.

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13:45

Aragonès defends the amnesty because it is a "robust" proposal

The president of the Generalitat,

Pere Aragonès

, has defended the approval of the Amnesty Law by ensuring that the project that will be voted on today in the Congress of Deputies is "robust."

"We have a robust proposal and we have to continue working so that it can be approved and, above all, implemented. We know that there are those who will try to stop it from certain powers of the State or

especially from a sector of the judiciary very aligned with the Spanish nationalist right.

" , Aragonès said in statements to the press in Brussels, after meeting with the European Commissioner for the Economy, Paolo Gentiloni.

"Above all, we have to be able to overcome the situation and, therefore, the Amnesty Law must be able to move forward," declared Aragonès, asked about JxCat's warning to vote against the law if the PSOE refuses to modify it before possible "boycott" attempts by "various judicial establishments."

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