In the first vote, the Congress of Deputies rejected Junts' amendments that sought to remove terrorism from the amnesty law.
A few minutes before the vote on the text, the conservative independence supporters remain uncertain as to what the meaning of their vote will be.
If they reject it, it will return to the Justice Commission for new negotiations.
Junts spokesperson in Congress, Míriam Nogueras, has defended her party's amendments and her possible vote against the approval of the norm.
“A selective and deferred amnesty is not what we signed,” she said in the gallery at the beginning of the plenary session in which the deputies have debated and will vote on the law.
Throughout the morning, Junts has threatened not to vote in favor, with the excuse that the rule does not guarantee that the grace measure can be applied to all the defendants in the
process
.
The ERC deputy, Pilar Vallugera, has replied from the stand that criticizing it means “falling into the trap of modifying it for spurious interests.”
“What is the decision that favors the most people?
There is only one answer to this, and that is to vote yes,” said Vallugera.
The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has highlighted the changes accepted by the socialists regarding this law: “The ideological changes of the PSOE are comical and cosmic.”
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Javier CasqueiroPolitical correspondent of EL PAÍSMadrid
Nogueras does not clarify the meaning of Junts' vote on the amnesty law
Junts spokesperson, Míriam Nogueras, did not want to clarify anything about her party's vote on the opinion of the amnesty law or the project as a whole after the recess granted by the president of Congress, Francina Armengol, before start voting.
The journalists have asked him directly if Junts is going to force the rule to return with his vote against the Justice commission to resume the negotiation and Nogueras has not opened his mouth and has retired to the rooms in the Chamber of Deputies. their training.
ACT.JAN 30, 2024 - 16:58
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Congress rejects the amendments to the amnesty that Junts demanded to support the law
The Congress of Deputies has rejected by a majority the amendments presented by Junts to the amnesty law, which sought to protect the grace measure for Puigdemont, Rovira and the rest of the defendants such as Tsunami Democràtic and the CDR.
The Catalan independence party had conditioned support for the law on the approval of the modifications it had presented.
Among them was removing terrorism from the list of crimes of the pardon measure and had also proposed modifications in the application of the rule to ensure, among other aspects, that the presentation of preliminary questions before the European justice system does not delay the first effects of the amnesty once the law is approved.
ACT.30 JAN 2024 - 17:01
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Three minutes before voting
The president of Congress, Francina Armengol, gives a three-minute pause before voting.
Just before that period opens, the Vox deputy, Pepa Millán, has taken the floor to ask that the deputies who have "expressed expressions against the decorum of State institutions" be called to order, in reference to Míriam Nogueras (Junts) and Martina Velarde (Vamos).
Armengol decides to suspend the plenary session for the aforementioned period.
ACT.30 JAN 2024 - 16:38
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The president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, during his speech in the debate on the amnesty law this Tuesday in Congress.
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Feijóo affirms that the "turns of the PSOE are comical and cosmic"
The president of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has attacked the president of the Government and socialist leader, Pedro Sánchez, and has stated that “the twists and turns of the PSOE are comical and cosmic.”
“When Mr. Sánchez said that in Catalonia there had not been a sedition but a rebellion.
That the national police suffered unforgivable violence.
That Junts was the xenophobic right.
“Where in the
fachosphere
was Mr. Sánchez then?” Feijóo asked himself ironically.
Addressing the socialist caucus, Feijóo stated: “They are going to amnesty the acts of others but history will not amnesty you.”
Feijóo has considered that the law is "infamous from minute one" but that every day since PSOE and the independence groups agreed on it until today "they have turned it into a greater obscenity."
Addressing Bildu, Feijóo questioned “with what authority he speaks about what terrorism is.”
“You consider that this [the actions of the CDR and the Democratic Tsunami platform] is not terrorism.
And yours?
"Isn't yours either?" Feijóo asked himself.
ACT.30 JAN 2024 - 17:20
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PSOE, on the amnesty: “It is a solid, impeccable and constitutional law”
The PSOE deputy Francisco Aranda has defended the amnesty law and has stated that it is a “solid, impeccable and constitutional” norm.
“It is a political resolution to what should not have come out of politics, only in this way can this law be read,” Aranda defended.
Addressing the popular caucus, the socialist deputy stated that when the PP was in Government, Catalonia held two referendums and a declaration of independence.
“With us there is dialogue and politics,” he noted.
“We're fixing what you guys messed up.”
ACT.30 JAN 2024 - 16:25
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Abascal attacks the “part-time opposition” of the PP and accuses them of “whitewashing” the Government
The leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, has attacked during his turn on the Congress platform the position of the PP for exercising “a part-time opposition” with which, in his opinion, they “whitewash” the Government.
“Half a day he is against the coup and half a day reaching out to those who are attacking the Constitution,” said Abascal, who has criticized the “terrible consequences” of the “impunity of street terrorism.”
“Today Sánchez and his accomplices pretend to be the Judiciary,” he added.
“I can't think of anything more serious that a government could do in a European country than what Pedro Sánchez is doing: buying votes to obtain an investiture,” said Abascal, who immediately addressed the leader of the PP: “ Feijóo, you know it on Sundays, but you forget on Mondays.”
And, just before saying goodbye to him, he asked him again to use his majority in the Senate to prevent the passage of the law.
ACT.JAN 30, 2024 - 16:21
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Sumar affirms that Judge García-Castellón is “biased” and “deserves to be accused of prevarication”
Sumar deputy Gerardo Pisarello has charged against Judge Manuel García-Castellón and has stated that he is “biased” and that “he deserves to be accused of prevarication and even to be recused from the case” of the independence platform Democratic Tsunami.
“The Tsunami case was in García-Castellón's office for four years but just now he has come to the conclusion that the cuts to the AP-7 in Catalonia could be considered terrorism.
However, when Esperanza Aguirre cut Ferraz Street in front of the PSOE headquarters she saw nothing,” Pisarello argued.
“We will have amnesty not to return to the past, but to move forward.”
ACT.30 JAN 2024 - 16:11
Virginia MartínezMadrid
Bolaños and Cerdán are absent from their seats for a while
Both the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, and the Secretary of Organization, Santos Cerdán, have left the seat for a while.
Cerdán has just returned.
Both are two of the main socialist negotiators of the text of the amnesty law.
Oriol Junqueras is also absent at the moment, while the vice president of the Generalitat, Laura Vilagrà, has now arrived at the guest gallery along with the former ERC deputy and Government delegate in Madrid, Joan Capdevila.
ACT.JAN 30, 2024 - 16:04
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Bildu, on the approval of the amnesty law: “We have a historic opportunity and we have to take advantage of it”
Bildu deputy Jon Iñarritu has defended the amnesty law and stated that it is “necessary so that the conflict in Catalonia can be resolved and removed from the judicial framework where it never had to go.”
“It will be fair and good not only for Catalan society, but also for the State,” stated Iñarritu, who has defended that the rule has to be “as broad as possible so that all those who were punished for their ideas are protected.”
“We have a historic opportunity and we have to take advantage of it,” he defended.
Iñarritu has also attacked the right and the extreme right and has defended that they are using the amnesty law to try to "overthrow the Government."
“The objective of some magistrates is not to destroy this law alone, but to destroy this Government and the plurinational majority that supports it.
The right and extreme right are moving,” Iñarritu assured.
ACT.30 JAN 2024 - 15:59
Marc RoviraBarcelona
Junts calls for a “comprehensive amnesty” and ERC replies that criticizing the law is “falling into a trap”
The debate on the amnesty law has served to illuminate a new struggle between the two Catalan independence parties.
Junts per Catalunya and Esquerra Republicana have leveled mutual accusations regarding the way in which each party has negotiated the amendments to the law.
Míriam Nogueras has justified Junts' rejection of the current wording of the law in that it does not guarantee a “comprehensive amnesty.”
Nogueras, spokesperson for Junts, has argued that it is necessary for the text of the norm to guarantee “that no one is going to be left behind.”
Pilar Vallugera, from Esquerra, has replied that criticizing the law means “falling into the trap of modifying it for spurious interests.”
“Today, what is the decision that favors the most people?
There is only one answer to this, and that is to vote yes,” said Vallugera.
Nogueras has defended that Junts “maintains its position” and has thrown a poisoned dart at Esquerra: “We are the only ones who are not tied hand and foot.”
Esquerra understands that Junts is delaying the approval of the law with the aim of prioritizing the interests of its leader, Carles Puigdemont.
ACT.30 JAN 2024 - 15:57
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Podemos: “In Spain there is lawfare”
The Podemos deputy, Martina Velarde, pointed out in the gallery that “in Spain there is lawfare [judicial harassment for political purposes].”
And he has defended that we must “tell the truth to people” to add: “We must introduce terrorism crimes into the law that do not violate human rights because there are judges in our country who try to apply terrorism crimes to things that are not. ”.
“We have a lot at stake,” said Velarde.
“We are at stake if in Spanish democracy the representatives of the popular will or the judicial right and Judge García-Castellón [in reference to Judge Manuel García-Castellón, who is investigating the
Tsunami case
] rule.”
ACT.30 JAN 2024 - 15:54
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BNG considers the amnesty a "democratic advance because it implies assuming that political conflicts are resolved through political means"
BNG deputy Néstor Rego has defended that the approval of an amnesty law "is a democratic advance because it implies assuming that political conflicts must be resolved through political means and not through judicial means."
"The right and extreme right and the judicial apparatus at their service are against this law," Rego defended.
"The judicial wing does not stop at proving that
lawfare
exists and they will continue to promote it."
ACT.30 JAN 2024 - 15:51
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Alberto Catalán Higueras (UPN): “Today the Government is going to humiliate the rule of law”
UPN deputy Alberto Catalán Higueras has lamented that “the truth is that from today we Spaniards are going to be less equal before the law.”
“Today the Government is going to humiliate the rule of law,” he added.
According to Catalán, "for the Government there are two types of terrorism, a good one, that of its friends, and a bad one, that of others," said the deputy, who accuses the President of the Government of not having "credibility."
ACT.30 JAN 2024 - 15:46
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ERC refers to Junts' threat to vote against the law and warns that they could “lose the opportunity”
ERC deputy Pilar Vallugera has made reference to Junts' threat to vote against the amnesty law that is being debated in Congress and has appealed to them not to lose "this opportunity."
“This law is endowed with sufficient force not to change based on the investigations of the judges who clearly prevaricate and who want to wreck this law.
Is it necessary for us to be the ones to give them entry?
That we lose this opportunity today, when we can guarantee that most of our people are amnestied?” Vallugera asked.
"There is a decision that makes it easier to return to the fight and that is to vote yes."
"This is not about Puidgemont, it is about the 1,500 people who for seven years have had their lives in question because the state is repressing them," Vallugera continued.
"There was no terrorism, there was no treason, there was none of these crimes."
ACT.30 JAN 2024 - 15:46
Javier CasqueiroPolitical correspondent of EL PAÍSMadrid
Oriol Junqueras in the gallery, Sánchez's seat still empty
The leader of ERC, Oriol Junquera, one of the possible beneficiaries of the amnesty law, went to the guest gallery of Congress this afternoon, and previously participated in an internal meeting of his parliamentary group.
The one who has not been there since the beginning of the debate has been the leader of the PSOE, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez.
Since the beginning of this plenary session, the first vice president and socialist deputy general secretary, María Jesús Montero, and the minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Cortes, Félix Bolaños, negotiator with Junts and ERC of the bill, have sat on the Government bench since the beginning of this plenary session. amnesty.
ACT.30 JAN 2024 - 15:39
Elsa García de BlasPolitical journalistMadrid
The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo (in the center), this Tuesday in Congress.
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Feijóo, on the amnesty law: “The Government is on assisted respiration”
The PP has withdrawn its amendments to the amnesty law to ensure that Feijóo closes the debate today.
Sources from the popular leader's direct team have confirmed the withdrawal of his amendments rejecting the norm.
These sources explain that, once they are aware that they were not going to succeed, they prefer the tactical advantage of Feijóo closing the debate and being able to intervene having first listened to the Junts spokesperson, Míriam Nogueras.
Upon his arrival at the Plenary Session, the leader of the PP proclaimed: “The Government is on assisted respiration.”
ACT.30 JAN 2024 - 15:34
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Nogueras (Junts): “A selective and deferred amnesty is not what we signed”
The Junts spokesperson, Míriam Nogueras, defended this Tuesday in plenary session her party's amendments and her possible vote against the approval of the amnesty law.
“A selective and deferred amnesty is not what we signed,” she said on the platform after defending a “comprehensive” amnesty that leaves no one behind.
“The agreement with the PSOE had the shared will to end the criminal persecution of those who want to engage in politics in Catalonia,” said the deputy, who added: “Junts cannot participate in leaving the entire Catalan independence movement exposed to arbitrariness. of the politicized Spanish judicial leadership.”
“This law has holes where the prevaricating Spanish justice system can leave the amnesty on empty paper,” she pointed out.
“We are not terrorists and this is reality,” said Nogueras.
“Do not be afraid to amnesty crimes that have not been committed.”
ACT.30 JAN 2024 - 15:35
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PNV affirms that with the amnesty a “traumatic political cycle” closes and that it will serve “to regain dialogue”
PNV deputy Mikel Legarda and speaker on the Justice Commission has stated that the amnesty law will serve to “close a traumatic political cycle with a political decision” and to “regain dialogue.”
“With this law, we help the general interest through restoration, harmony and political and social coexistence, seriously broken by the incorrect management of a crisis that generated situations that should not have occurred,” stated Legarda.
During his speech, Legarda refuted the PP's arguments against the amnesty law.
"They have stated that it is a political payment for the investiture. We remind them that the frustration of their expectations to govern derives from their inability to reach the majorities necessary to govern," Legarda stated.
ACT.30 JAN 2024 - 15:25
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The plenary session begins in which Congress debates and votes on the amnesty law
The plenary session begins in which the deputies debate and vote this afternoon on the amnesty law, pending Junts' threat not to vote in favor, with the excuse that it does not guarantee that it can be applied to all those accused of the
process
.
Without the votes of Junts, the processing of the law has no chance of succeeding this afternoon.
The setback would not be a definitive blow to the norm, but it would be a setback that would slow down the process.
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.
ACT.JAN 30, 2024 - 15:01