Victor Mondelo Barcelona

Barcelona

Updated Saturday, March 9, 2024-02:20

  • Justice Judges and prosecutors warn that the new wording of the amnesty does not ensure total protection for Puigdemont

  • Pacto Sánchez hopes that Puigdemont will give him the Budgets after changing the amnesty to complete his goal of governing until 2027

With a total amnesty agreed to protect

Carles Puigdemont

from his accusation of terrorism and a possible investigation for high treason, Junts is already dreaming of the return of its leader to Catalonia and of his reconversion as a candidate for the Presidency of the Generalitat to take over ERC control of the independence apparatus.

The fugitive will be the candidate of the neoconvergents for the European elections, but the bulk of the party, starting with its general secretary,

Jordi Turull

, hopes that he will also agree to become the head of the list for the next Catalan elections, which will be held in February 2025 if the current president, Pere Aragonès, manages to push through the Budgets to exhaust the legislature.

While the Amnesty Law was going through the process in the Congressional Justice Commission, Turull publicly demanded that Puigdemont run for president, already assuming that he will not find any judicial obstacle to returning to Spain in the summer and reactivating his political life in Catalonia. after avoiding a trial that, clearly, would have led to his conviction and disqualification if it had not been for the approval of the grace measure designed, side by side, between the PSOE, ERC and Junts.

But Puigdemont has not made a decision at all.

His priority is to secure his seat in the European Parliament and then begin to plan a messianic return that will establish him as the moral leader of Catalan secessionism, if unforeseen events do not arise in the application of the Amnesty Law.

But the polls hold back the leader of Junts.

The polls predict the second consecutive victory for

Salvador Illa

's PSC .

Enrolling in the race for the Generalitat only to lose to the socialists is not a scenario that Puigdemont likes.

It is true that none of these demographic samples considered the former president as a candidate and that his successive victories against Pedro Sánchez's PSOE boost Puigdemont as presidential candidate by presenting him to the pro-independence voter as the most influential figure in Catalonia, above the first secretary of the Catalan socialists and of the confirmed ERC candidate, Aragonès, who opts to keep his seat in the Palau once the candidacy of Oriol Junqueras is ruled out.

The Junts cadres not only encourage Puigdemont for his electoral potential, but also for the lack of solvent alternatives to fight in the Catalan elections.

Before Sánchez gave in with the amnesty, and the last candidate, Laura Borràs, was eliminated after her conviction for corruption,

Josep Rull

appeared as the only feasible presidential candidate as his disqualification had fallen once the crime of sedition, the only one for which he was convicted, had been eliminated. had condemned.

The former counselor of the Generalitat has been touring Catalonia for months to raise support for his candidacy, but he is fully aware that the change in attitude deflates his chances and condemns him to the queue of the presidential candidates.

Turull has joined the pools by assuming that he will be rehabilitated to hold public office thanks to the amnesty.

He weighs against the party's number two his undisguised links with the former Convergència and the fact that he declares himself a second-class candidate compared to the first sword, Puigdemont.

The incisive

Míriam Nogueras

appears as an alternative, catapulted by the growing popularity that her prominent role in the negotiations with the PSOE has earned her and by the media interventions in Congress, which guarantees her a legislature in which Junts will continue to play a leading role due to her status of preferred partner of Sánchez.