Marisa Cruz

Marta Belver Madrid

Madrid

Updated Thursday, March 7, 2024-10:30

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The Amnesty bill drafted by the Government to consolidate Puigdemont's support for the presidency of Pedro Sánchez, will be approved in the

Justice Commission

of Congress this morning, after the Executive has agreed to amend itself by patching it once plus the text that was advertised as "impeccable" and definitive to give full satisfaction to the demands of the fugitive from Justice.

According to the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, the Spanish law will be "a world reference."

The latest move, the last concession to secessionism, consists of bypassing the

Penal Code

to restrict to a minimum the range of acts that are considered crimes of terrorism and high treason and that, consequently, could not be amnestied.

Félix Bolaños has indicated that the agreement was reached yesterday afternoon.

He has stressed that the draft opinion of the

Venice Commission

has been a key driver in reaching the pact.

"This law closes a stage of conflict and tension, of bankruptcy of feelings, a decade in which no one won and Catalonia stood still. We open a new stage of agreement, investments and future. It is great news for Catalonia and for all of Spain," he said.

For the PSOE, he added, it is a "pride" to contribute with this law to normalization in

Catalonia

.

"We are talking about a law that benefits Catalonia and Spain as a whole, that benefits coexistence and reconciliation and is going to become a world reference."

"This law," he said, "marks history. It is the law of a brave Government."

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Bolaños has made an effort to insist that the norm complies with what was stated by the Venice Commission, which indicated that amnesty was normal in up to 54 countries.

"The Venice Commission endorses the amnesty law. It is a European and constitutional law," he assured.

PSOE, Junts and ERC have agreed on three transactional amendments to the articles of the proposal and one more to the explanatory statement and have undertaken to directly withdraw in the Commission the amendments that were still alive so that the opinion of the law ends up being approved in the Plenary of Congress without further changes.

Sánchez thus completely submits to the demands of the fugitive, to whom he offers complete and immediate impunity in exchange for having the seven Junts votes in Congress, essential to guarantee his continuity in

La Moncloa

.

Even so, since the formation of Puigdemont it has already been warned that they will not be fully satisfied until they verify the erasure of the crimes of all those prosecuted by the

process

.

"We will be happy when everyone can say that they are not prosecuted for being pro-independence," stressed the spokesperson for Junts in Congress,

Míriam Nogueras

.

In this way, secessionism expresses its doubts about the interpretation that the Spanish judges may finally make of the text of the Amnesty law because, in any case, it is up to them to finally apply the measure of grace.

This last aspect has been confirmed by Bolaños himself: "The judges have the last word."

The text that the Justice Commission approves today will be sent to the Plenary Session of the Chamber next.

Predictably, it will be an extraordinary plenary session convened by the president of Congress, Francina Armengol.

Without reference to the Penal Code

In the absence of knowing the details of the amendments, what has emerged from the negotiation is that the coverage of the amnesty has been extended to terrorist crimes as long as they do not violate the European directive on the matter of 2017 and the European

Convention for the Protection of human rights

.

The reference to the Penal Code

is therefore eliminated

.

Likewise, for the exoneration of treason, the United Nations Charter and the resolutions of the General Assembly on peaceful relations between countries are established as a limit;

"that is, that there has been an effective threat or use of force against the independence or territorial integrity of Spain."

In the case of economic crimes, the change consists of "clarifying" that only those in which "enrichment" has occurred cannot be eliminated.

Furthermore, they point out that the exclusion of inhuman and degrading treatment "is in accordance with the consolidated jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, operating, therefore, when such acts have broken the moral and physical resistance of the victim."

Among the changes included in the text of the law is the extension of the temporal scope of the amnesty to November 2011. In this way, the first meetings of the Convergència leadership to launch the illegal consultation of 9- N of 2014, in one of which three of Jordi Pujol's sons participated: Jordi, Oriol and Josep.