Congress leaves the amnesty ready, waiting for a long obstacle course. The significance of the highly controversial law on the political calendar had been reduced the day before, with the call for regional elections in Catalonia for next May 12.
The horizon of the legislature has become a little more nebulous while awaiting the verdict of the Catalan polls. The only signs of joy were manifested in the ERC bench, facing the guest gallery where the leader of their party, Oriol Junqueras, was. The PSOE speaks of “closing of a cycle” while the independence movement insists that the referendum is its next battle.