The independence movement will continue to demand amnesty despite the pardons

The Catalan president, Pere Aragonès, at the Palau de la Generalitat MASSIMILIANO MINOCRI / EL PAÍS

The possible granting of pardons to the

procés

leaders

by the Executive of Pedro Sánchez will not move the pro-independence parties from their will to get them to vote an amnesty law in Congress. The

president

Pere Aragonès, in his first interview to TV-3 on the night of Wednesday, has again insisted that take the dialogue table with the Government's proposal of amnesty and self -

determination as the formula to resolve the conflict Catalan . The also Republican leader has urged the Government to take his proposal to that forum and has asked him to take advantage of the two years remaining in the legislature to move forward.

"Faced with the Spanish right and fascism, the Spanish democrats have to see that, if they want to get ahead, they have to go hand in hand with the Catalan independence movement and that only with democracy can we resolve the political conflict," said Aragonès, referring to the

referendum

.

The Republican suggests that these two years are the only opportunity for dialogue, with the risk that in the new legislature the right will gain weight and the window will close.

The PP does not show signs of wanting to give ground and, for example, will try to force in Congress a full monograph on pardons to pro-independence politicians, convicted of sedition and embezzlement.

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The

president

explained that he will soon bring together the National Agreement for Self-determination and Amnesty, a forum of sovereign parties and entities in which Aragonès wants to discuss the proposal that will be taken to the next meeting of the dialogue table with the Government, still without a clear date despite the will of both parties.

"The amnesty will not be a proposal solely mine as president nor a proposal of the Government.

It must be a proposal from the country ”, he added.

But while the official discourse of the Government and of the parties that compose it, ERC and Junts, remains in a measured balance between claiming the commitment to amnesty without opposing the pardons, the Catalan National Assembly (ANC) has charged against that option. Aragonès has defended that the government's forgiveness is not his way (it implies accepting that a crime was committed, something that has been emphatically denied since secessionism) but "will not oppose" measures that can alleviate the situation of the independence leaders in prison and their families.

The Government limits itself to saying that it does not believe that this helps to solve the political conflict in Catalonia, but the Assembly goes further. Its president, Elisenda Paluzie, has accepted on Twitter that her concession "disarms" support for secession both within Catalonia and internationally. "If they are already free, the cause is not so urgent," he said, referring to the consequences it would have, for example, before the European Court of Human Rights, to which the prisoners want to take their case. It also worries how the measure dismantles the narrative of an oppressive and undemocratic state that secessionism has dedicated itself to promoting.

Precisely that idea of ​​neutralizing the independence bet is the main argument of the Government to carry out the measure despite the fierce opposition of the PP, Vox, Ciudadanos and some socialist barons. Or the former president Felipe González himself. The popular ones increased the pressure on Thursday with a formal request in Congress to hold a monographic plenary session next week in which Sánchez explains his intention to pardon the secessionist leaders convicted of sedition and embezzlement. Vox, for its part, has announced that it will appeal to the Supreme Court.

The Table of Congress, where the Coalition Executive has an absolute majority, has yet to decide whether to convene that plenary session, which has been announced by the PP leader himself, Pablo Casado, and on what date.

The measure of grace, Casado said, is a "secessionist self-indulgence to remain in power."

In addition, he has paraphrased the Supreme Court, for whom the pardon is "unacceptable" in the face of an attitude that they describe as an "undemocratic" initiative that "pulverizes coexistence."

"We will not allow this outrage against the Constitution, justice and the nation," he said.

The political battle against the pardons will continue in the municipalities of all Spain, where the municipal groups of the PP will present motions against the pardon to the independence leaders, as explained yesterday by the general secretary of the popular, Teodoro García Egea.

On the other hand, Ciudadanos, the seventh force of the Parliament of Catalonia, has announced that it will take to the streets to demonstrate against the possible decision of the Government. The pardon that Sánchez prepares for the condemned, according to the orange party, is an attack on the Supreme Court magistrates. Carlos Carrizosa, the president of the bench in the Catalan Chamber, has asked to concentrate in the center of Barcelona on June 11, to "defend democratic coexistence."