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Updated Thursday, February 15, 2024-11:27

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The president of the

Group of Socialists and Democrats

in the European Parliament,

Iratxe García

, informed the European Commission this Thursday of the "change in position" of the Popular Party and its president, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, on the consideration of a conditional pardon for the former president Catalan Carles Puigdemont in a "reconciliation" plan for

Catalonia

.

In a letter also signed by the head of the Spanish socialist delegation in the European Parliament,

Javier Moreno

, García provides the Community Vice President of Values ​​and Transparency,

Vra Jourová

, and the Commissioner for Justice,

Didier Reynders

, with a compilation of the articles published by the sixteen journalists who had lunch with Feijóo last Friday.

The socialist leaders in the European Parliament consider that these articles may be "of interest" to Jourová and Reynders "after the recent political events that occurred last weekend in Spain in relation to Catalonia and the information published by various media about the change of position of the Popular Party and its president, Alberto Núñez Feijóo".

According to the two PSOE MEPs, with this movement, the

popular party

"is open to considering a conditional pardon for former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont in a 'reconciliation' plan for Catalonia in line with the amnesty project proposed by the Socialist Party."

The same message has also been sent to the president of the Venice Commission,

Claire Bazy Malaurie

; to the president of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs of the European Parliament,

Juan Fernando López Aguilar

; and the president of the Democracy, Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights Monitoring Group of the European Parliament,

Sophia Int'Veld

.

García and Moreno allude in their letter to the information that reveals that the PP studied - and then discarded - the legality of the amnesty in their conversations with Junts in the face of the failed investiture of Feijóo, who would have opened up to studying a pardon with conditions to Puigdemont.

Judges' work

Consequently, the two socialist MEPs explain that the statements that Núñez Feijóo made last Friday during a lunch with 16 journalists from various media outlets "demonstrate that his political position regarding the pardons granted by the Spanish Government and the proposed amnesty project by the Socialist Party is actually based on accusations that it considers false, or on values ​​that the PP itself does not respect when negotiating.

In their writing, they assure that the PP "believes in the need for a 'reconciliation plan' towards Catalonia, thus recognizing the existence of a serious political conflict."

The PP, they add, "is open to considering a conditional pardon for Carles Puigdemont, despite having stated on several occasions that the pardons granted by the Spanish Government were unacceptable, both from a political and constitutional point of view."

Furthermore, they emphasize that the PP "has admitted to having spent at least 24 hours evaluating the viability of an amnesty law, within the framework of the negotiations with Junts per Catalunya."

And finally, the main opposition party "has acknowledged that it will be 'difficult' for judges to prove that the former president of Catalonia has committed terrorism crimes, despite the PP's insistence in recent weeks on identifying the independence process. with terrorism," García and Moreno maintain in their letter.