A manifesto released this Wednesday and signed by 254 journalists, intellectuals or former politicians calls on the PSOE to "recover its historic project" which, in the opinion of the signatories, "has broken" the current coalition government and calls for it to "raise the voice of the many socialists” who, they point out, attend this fact with alarm.
The text, signed in Madrid and Barcelona, is endorsed by journalists Miguel Ángel Aguilar, Antonio Caño, Diego Carcedo, Juan Luis Cebrián or Augusto Delkader;
the former politicians Rosa Díez and Joaquín Leguina;
the diplomat Inocencio Arias; the writer and academic Félix de Azúa;
the professor of Constitutional Law Francesc de Carreras;
the architect Luis Fernández-Galiano;
the philosophers José Luis Pardo and Fernando Savater;
or the writer Andrés Trapiello.
The protesters denounce that the current government coalition "has broken the historical project of the PSOE committed to complying with the letter and the spirit of the 1978 Constitution, a genuine expression of the agreement reached in the transition" and they also regret that the right The current situation lacks adequate “energy”, “proposals” and “discourse to resolve the current situation”.
They regret that the Executive's decisions "coincide with the claim of Basque and Catalan secessionism of a flagrant breach of the Constitution" and warn that they could lead to a process that "would end up destroying the Spanish political nation."
In this sense, the manifesto indicates initiatives in Parliament that, in the opinion of the signatories, violate "the separation of powers,
The manifesto mentions that "impunity" has been granted, "through
ad hoc laws"
, to the pro-independence leaders of Catalonia for the events of September and October 2017. This impunity, they understand, leaves the integrity of the Constitution unprotected and violates the principle of generality of legal norms.
Specifically, it censures the parliamentary process of the legislative reform that unblocked the renewal of the Constitutional Court, a process that the guarantee court paralyzed following a request from the PP —arguing that the presentation of amendments to a bill to change other regulations was unconstitutional ( that of the Constitutional and that of the Judiciary) without any connection to that law (the Penal Code)— and only three days before it was voted on in the Senate.
The resolution aroused criticism from the Executive, which complied with the ruling, but described what happened as "maximum seriousness."
After the exhibition, the signatories call on the PSOE to recover its historical project” and calls for “the many socialists to raise their voices” who, they assert, are watching the process with alarm.
They also allude to the PP and "to the rest of the constitutionalist forces" so that "they calmly and effectively fulfill their inalienable duties without any bankruptcy."
And they make one last call for Spanish society "to react civically to these government and legislative policies, with special appeal to young people."