Marisa Cruz Madrid

Madrid

Updated Wednesday, March 6, 2024-13:32

  • Politics Sánchez assumes new changes in the Amnesty Law to give more guarantees to Puigdemont

  • Economy Montero assures that there will be Budgets and warns the PP in the midst of the Koldo case: "The legislature is going to be very long"

Junts will give the green light tomorrow in the Justice Commission to the proposed amnesty law after having reached an agreement with the Government that satisfies Carles Puigdemont's demands.

The exact terms of the pact are not yet known but what is known is that it will open the door not only to the erasure of all crimes committed under the process but also to an upcoming agreement regarding the General State Budget project. .

This second part of the equation is key for the Government of Pedro Sánchez because without the approval of the State accounts his mandate would have very little chance of surviving.

This is what the Junts senator, Josep LLuís Cleríes, said during the debate on the objectives of budgetary stability and public debt in the Upper House, in his response to the first vice president and Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero.

Cleríes has ensured the vote in favor of Junts for these objectives by assuming that the next Budgets will satisfy Catalan demands.

"Someone says no means no and we say yes means yes because we are in a moment in which we must give this support even if we disagree on some things," she stated.

The senator has insisted, however, that his party "will push for respect for what belongs to Catalonia" because, he stressed, "the 'in exchange for nothing' is over. We must negotiate and not just dialogue."

A few words with which he already warns the Executive that their votes will have a price and it will not be low.

The representative of Junts in the Upper House has emphasized that "Catalonia is experiencing constant plunder" for which he has openly blamed Madrid.

"There is a vacuum effect in Madrid; Madrid is sinking the whole of Spain," he stated before warning: "We are not going to put up with this joke and we are going to exercise our strength."

However, Cleríes has stated that his party wants this legislature to prosper.

"We want it," he said, "because we believe that we are at a key moment; there is a very important amnesty ahead, an amnesty of reconciliation and whoever doesn't like it should put up with it because this is what democracy is (...) "We are going for amnesty, freedom and for there to be social Budgets at the service of the people. Some of us are in politics for Catalonia and for vulnerable people."

With these words, the senator has taken for granted not only the agreement on the Amnesty bill that tomorrow will be discussed in the Congressional Justice Commission after Puigdemont's party has negotiated with the Government on changes to the law to shield completely the erasure of any criminal responsibility that could be attributed to the fugitive, but also the subsequent step that involves giving support, with the appropriate concessions, to new State accounts vital to keeping the legislature standing.