Gerard Melgar Barcelona

Barcelona

Updated Thursday, February 15, 2024-12:22

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The Generalitat is convinced that the Government will pardon those members of the independence movement who could be left out of the protection of the

Amnesty Law

, still in the process of parliamentary processing.

This was expressed this morning by the Catalan Minister of Social Rights,

Carles Campuzano

, who assured that the Executive chaired by

Pedro Sánchez

is "open" to granting this measure of grace as an alternative. "Everyone knows it," he stressed in an interview on the

RTVE program

Cafè d'idees .

The

councilor

, an independent member of the Government of

Pere Aragonès

and with a political past as a leader of

Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya

, has criticized the position of

Junts

with the

amnesty

, whose

no

in the vote two weeks ago in the

Congress of Deputies

prevented it from being implemented. approve the legal text. "There cannot be a 100% armored amnesty, since laws by definition are always subject to the control of judges in their application," he pointed out.

For this reason, Campuzano does not recognize anything in JxCat that has to do with his former party: "They have one thing that is very little

convergent

, which is unpredictability."

Precisely, in the last few hours,

PSOE

and Junts have gone up a gear in their contacts to unblock the proposed Amnesty Law. After the cold water

of the

neo-convergents'

no

that paralyzed the processing of the legislative project, both parties have intensified their conversations to try to reach an agreement on the amendments presented to the text.

With this purpose, the Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Cortes,

Félix Bolaños

, and the Secretary of Organization of the PSOE,

Santos Cerdán

, met yesterday in Barcelona with the general secretary of JxCat,

Jordi Turull

, and his spokesperson in the Lower House,

Míriam Nogueras

, according to

La Vanguardia

.

After a meeting that lasted approximately two hours, the two delegations confirmed that they still maintain the main differences that prevented them from agreeing, on January 30, on a unified text on a law that became a cornerstone of the negotiations for Sánchez's investiture. last November.

Hours before, however, Bolaños had expressed that he had "no doubt that there will be an agreement because they share" an objective, which in the minister's own words is that the amnesty covers "all the people who were involved in the independence process." In an interview in Rac1, Bolaños assured that the current wording of the law covers "all the cases" that occurred during

the process

and "does not leave anyone out." Even so, he preferred to ignore any reference to proper names when expressly asked. by the former president of the Generalitat

Carles Puigdemont

and the general secretary of

Esquerra Republicana

,

Marta Rovira

.

Also the first vice president and Minister of Finance,

María Jesús Montero

, endorsed the total validity of the current wording of the law, "very thoughtful and very measured," in her words. "Not any amnesty is constitutional, but the one presented by the PSOE, I can guarantee that it is fully so and that is how it has to come out of Congress," she said at a Galician election campaign event in La Coruña.

The socialists have insisted in recent hours on seeking alternatives such as a reform of the

Criminal Procedure Law

to speed up judicial instructions. PSOE and Junts have until the 21st of this month to reach an agreement and for the Justice commission to once again submit a text to the plenary session of the Lower House. However, if there is still no quorum, the calendar can be accelerated until March 7, since there is an extendable period of 15 days.