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Updated Thursday, March 7, 2024-09:57

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The Popular Party has been 'Europeanizing' the issue of amnesty since the beginning of autumn.

He has taken it to the European Parliament, to the Commission through countless questions, to the Committee of the Regions, to the councils of ministers and to almost every agency, body and debate.

And this Thursday, its president, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, took it to the plenary session of the Congress of the European People's Party, in a speech before more than 1,500 delegates, including prime ministers, opposition leaders and the presidents of the Commission and the European Parliament. , surrounded by the applause of all of them.

"A growing majority of Spaniards see in the PP and the European institutions the guarantee to stop the Government's nonsense, today we cannot disappoint their trust and that is why I appreciate your support. All the members of the Spanish delegation feel reconfirmed by knowing that we are safe of a Europe that cannot allow threats to the rule of law, the independence of the judiciary to come to fruition and for a European prime minister to gain investiture in exchange for judicial impunity," said Feijóo.

The popular leader has taken advantage of his intervention in the plenary session of the Congress of the Popular Party in Bucharest to attack the decision and link it to threats to the rule of law, one of the hottest topics on the continent.

And he has received the strong and enthusiastic support of the leader of his party and head of the parliamentary group, Manfred Weber.

"Sánchez is a puppet of Puigdemont, who is going to approve an amnesty today, including one for terrorism," said the German, speaking right after the Spaniard.

"He is going to approve an amnesty today. He should be ashamed, Sánchez should be ashamed. Like Donald Tusk did in Poland, Alberto Núñez Feijóo will restore the rule of law in Spain," Weber added.

The popular people wanted that support, that shelter, that message.

Yesterday they asked President Ursula von der Leyen for more forcefulness regarding what is happening in our country, exactly at the same time as that meeting.

Feijóo did it privately and the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, in public, urging all his co-religionists to "not whitewash" the Spanish president.

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In its Manifesto ahead of the European elections in June, the EPP makes the issue a pillar and a battering ram.

"In recent years, the EPP has been the leading defender of the rule of law in the EU, making it clear that our community is based on values ​​and that these must be respected, in particular the fundamental values ​​of the EU," says its document .

"The EPP is firmly committed to remaining the leading defender of the rule of law so that all citizens in all Member States can feel equally protected from those who attack our values, including their own governments. The EPP will ensure that the rule of law mechanism law is not only applied in a fair and non-partisan manner, but is perfected to ensure its adequacy and effectiveness," it reads below.

To this wording, the Spanish delegation added an additional resolution, which was approved unanimously and incorporated into the final text.

In it, dedicated entirely to our country, it "deplores the proposed Amnesty law in Spain, the political actions that led to its adoption and its possible consequences for Europe. It offers impunity for crimes related to the secessionist movement, which has been considered contrary to the rule of law and rejected by the EU institutions".

The resolution denounces that "the law has been drafted by its own beneficiaries. The crimes in question include crimes relevant to the EU, such as embezzlement and terrorism, and could lead, as stated by the European Parliament, to the closure of the judicial investigation regarding Russia's interference in the 2017 Catalan secessionist attempt. This law, and the process that led to its adoption, undermines judicial independence by proposing parliamentary oversight of judges' rulings.

In that petition, the PP tells its political family that they cannot "overlook actions that threaten fundamental legal principles and the separation of powers within the EU legal system" and that is why they request, once again, "an examination thorough examination of the Amnesty Law by the Commission".

Something that Von der Leyen and his team have committed to doing, but only once there is a definitive text approved by the Congress of Deputies, since its evaluation will depend entirely on the final content, including, above all, the amendments. .

Since the text agreed upon yesterday has little to do with the initial agreement that was presented in November and has issues that Brussels did not think would be put in writing, such as forgiveness for terrorism crimes.