Junts threatens to reject the amnesty law because it does not provide guarantees

The amnesty law proposal threatens to run aground right from the start.

Junts per Catalunya has urgently called its management body this Tuesday morning and in a telematic meeting it has been agreed that, if the draft does not include last-minute adjustments, the party will not vote in favor of the text in Congress, in the plenary session that is scheduled for this afternoon, starting at 3:00 p.m.

“It is still being negotiated and we are going to negotiate until the last minute,” Junts said in a statement, which ends with a resounding sentence: “If the changes are not accepted, Junts will not be able to vote in favor of the law.”

The party led by Carles Puigdemont, called to be one of the main beneficiaries of the amnesty, maintains that it is a priority that the law covers all judicial cases opened by the

process.

It is estimated that the total number of people involved may amount to around 400 people.

Furthermore, Junts insists that the judicial closure must occur without delay, “with immediate application.”

After meeting with its executive this morning to assess how the seven deputies that the party has in Congress face the vote, it has been concluded that there are no guarantees for “the two objectives” set, that it includes everyone and that be of immediate application.

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Without the votes of Junts, the processing of the amnesty law has no chance of succeeding this afternoon in Congress.

The setback would not be a definitive blow to the law, but it would be a slow retreat.

It would force the text to be returned to the Justice Commission to try to redesign an article that could add all possible consensus to guarantee subsequent approval in the lower house.

Restarting a negotiation by law is possible, but it appears to be a complicated task, since trust between parties is already greatly eroded.

“The amnesty law is a robust law, on which work can obviously continue, but the most important thing is that it can be approved to overcome the repression that is currently restricting freedoms in Catalonia,” the president said this Tuesday. of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, visiting Brussels to defend the regulations in the institutions as well as the officialization of Catalan, reports

Silvia Ayuso.

Junts raises its last-minute claims after the judicial movements that have sowed Puigdemont's future with uncertainty.

The investigation that Judge García-Castellón is carrying out into the

Tsunami case

opens the door for the

former president

to be charged with terrorism, which multiplies doubts about the possibility of benefiting from the amnesty.

The same thing happens with the reactivation of the investigation in a Barcelona court of the Russian

procés

plot .

The possibility that Puigdemont ends up being linked to a crime of treason against the State reduces his options of benefiting from the pardon measure.

The Catalan independence parties present themselves to their public as the main promoters of a law that could throw sand on the entire judicial mess that generated the

process

and the separatist challenge of 2017. Despite the coincidence in the objective, Junts and Esquerra have addressed the negotiation from unequal positions.

The party that rules the Generalitat has proposed the changes to the law from a results-oriented perspective, with a low profile and without stridency.

For its part, Junts has tried to present it as a fight with the Government.

Last September, at a conference in Brussels, Carles Puigdemont explained that the conditions for supporting Pedro Sánchez's investiture involved extracting a package of concessions from the PSOE, and he demanded "payment in advance."

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