Juanma Lamet Madrid

Madrid

Updated Sunday, February 18, 2024-2:12 p.m.

  • Negotiation The Government guarantees amnesty to Puigdemont but not that he can return immediately

From emergency processing to extensions. There is no agreement between the PSOE and Junts on the amnesty, so the socialists have asked the Congress Board - in which they have a majority along with Sumar - to extend the deadline to debate and vote on the opinion of the Amnesty Law in the Justice Commission.

After Junts overturned the amendments, the governing body of the Lower House gave the Justice Commission 15 days to reach a new agreement, and that deadline expires next Wednesday the 21st. Well, on Saturday the deputy spokesperson for The socialists, Montse Mínguez, presented a letter to the table in which she requests to extend the deadline in order to convince Carles Puigdemont.

This Sunday, the PP has come out strongly to criticize the latest parliamentary movement of the socialists. Sources from the Popular Parliamentary Group have assured that the PSOE is asking for time "to continue digesting the demands of its independence partners." "There were two options: for Junts to give in or for Sánchez to swallow. It seems evident that the postponement they are requesting is to advance the second," they added.

"The Sánchez Presidency is based on saying yes to everything its partners ask for. That is why they already say that, in the area of ​​the independence movement, there will be two types of criminals: those who are amnestied and those who are pardoned. No one will be left out of the interested generosity of a weak president," they added.

"The same people who were looking for an emergency procedure and shortening deadlines, even if it was irregular, are now asking for extensions," the popular ones have ironically said.

The reasons for 'no'

To explain their refusal to the amendments agreed upon by the PSOE with the rest of its partners, Puigdemont and Miriam Nogueras demanded, after the latest fiasco in Congress, a "commitment to a comprehensive, complete amnesty, without exclusions."

The truth is that Puigdemont himself could be excluded from the amnesty depending on the development of judicial investigations into possible terrorism crimes in the 'procés' that he led. "Do they want us to trust that these conspiratorial judges and prosecutors will give us justice? What do they think, since we don't know them? There is only one way to stop their patriotic impulse: to make a more solid law, without so many loopholes," said Puigdemont.

"We are not going to move on from the commitment to include everyone," said Carles Puigdemont, while sources from La Moncloa assured this newspaper that they were not going to move on from the agreed amendments, because modifying the text would mean putting into question. its constitutionality in danger