The amnesty law is the key to the legislature.
Pedro Sánchez's current mandate in La Moncloa largely depends on the grace measure, which the plenary session of Congress will debate and vote on this Tuesday before being referred to the Senate, where the PP will delay its approval with its absolute majority.
And for that reason the leadership of the PSOE does not consider the latest judicial decisions that affect the
former president
and leader of Junts, Carles Puigdemont, the general secretary of ERC, Marta Rovira, and other pro-independence politicians and activists to be coincidental.
Ferraz sources call the extension by the judge of the National Court Manuel García-Castellón of the investigation of the so-called
Democratic Tsunami case
,
just a few hours after Joaquín Aguirre, the judge of The Russian plot of the
process
extends, also for six months, that derivative that affects, among others, Josep Lluís Alay, head of Puigdemont's office.
The ultimate intention would be to boycott the rule and create the conditions to break the majority that made Sánchez's investiture possible just two months ago.
To facilitate it, Junts and ERC made the amnesty a condition, which faces a crucial vote not only for the Executive, but also for the independence movement, with an eye on the Catalan elections scheduled for a year from now, while the battle between the legislative power and that of the judges.
The same sources from the national leadership of the PSOE impact: “Judicial decisions have a very clear objective.
The mere fact that the judiciary acts at the mercy of the legislature to try to influence the law is already horrible and inadmissible.”
The actions of García-Castellón, instructor of the Tsunami case, who in recent months has issued a series of resolutions that temporarily coincide with very delicate moments of the PSOE's negotiations with Junts and ERC to invest Sánchez and on the amnesty law, They unleashed the unusual response of the main government party.
“The times of the judiciary are empirically aligned with those of politics and the legislature.
Be it one way or another, every time the legislature makes a move, a judge makes a move,” the same socialist sources have insisted after learning of what they consider to be the last two movements of the most conservative sector of the judiciary, just on the eve of the debate. key to the amnesty in Parliament.
The text on the Amnesty Law agreed upon by the PSOE, Junts and ERC during the process in the Justice Commission runs the risk of being blocked this Tuesday in Congress.
Sources from Junts per Catalunya state that, at the end of Monday, there is still no agreement to incorporate amendments that shield all judicial cases derived from the
process,
which opens the door for Junts to vote against the text, in this first instance. , reports
Marc Rovira.
The previous week already left other precedents of controversial judicial resolutions whose author was once again García-Castellón and which put the PSOE even more on alert.
The magistrate issued two orders on the
Tsunami case
, one on Thursday and the other on Friday, after the latest changes that the socialists agreed to apply to the future amnesty law as requested by Junts and ERC.
The tweak that the Congressional justice commission approved last Tuesday to protect pro-independence activists and political leaders as much as possible before its final debate in the plenary session this Tuesday (and its subsequent processing in the Senate, which the PP will delay maximum allowed, two months, before the Upper House rejects the law and sends it back to Congress for final approval) establishes that those accused of terrorism will be exonerated “as long as, manifestly and with direct intention, they have not caused serious violations of human rights, in particular those provided for in articles 2 and 3 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights (ECHR) and Fundamental Freedoms and in international humanitarian law.
In these cases, the amnesty will apply even to those convicted in a final sentence, a possibility that was excluded in the first draft of the law.
Those who would benefit from the latest agreed amendments would be, in addition to Puigdemont and Rovira – both fugitives from Spanish justice in Belgium and Switzerland respectively – 12 activists from the Committees for the Defense of the Republic (CDR) accused of terrorism for acts of sabotage and street riots. .
After knowing the content of the modifications approved by the justice commission, García-Castellón issued an order in which he questioned whether Puigdemont and the other defendants in the
Tsunami case
could be granted amnesty , emphasizing that the injuries suffered by two police officers in October 2019 in Barcelona during the riots over the
procés
ruling are “incompatible with the right to life and physical integrity recognized in article 15 of the Constitution, and article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights.”
The judge also noted in another order that Tsunami Democràtic “could” have had “in mind” to act when a delegation of the King passed by in Barcelona in 2020, an alleged plan that already appeared in a report that the Civil Guard sent him in April and which he did not allude to in the order he issued in November against Puigdemont and Rovira in the case they have open for alleged terrorism.
High voltage parliamentary session
In the midst of all this political and judicial whirlwind, Congress will hold an extraordinary session to debate and vote on the opinion of the Justice Commission on the amnesty law proposal, as well as the amendments that remain alive.
ERC and Junts do not give up and insist on not leaving out any of the judicial accusations that include the accusation of terrorism, while the Government maintains that it will not make any more changes to the amnesty despite pressure from its pro-independence partners, who have already achieved relevant changes in the future law the same last week, when the PSOE already closed the rule.
“Right now there is no change on the table in the position of the PSOE regarding the voting on the amendments with respect to what came out of the Justice commission last week,” said PSOE spokesperson Esther Peña.
“We are satisfied and comfortable with the text that came out of the commission.
The document that emerged is sufficiently robust and fully constitutional, impeccable, and that is where we are,” she reiterated.
“We did not close the door until the last moment to be able to improve the law,” was the message sent by Esquerra spokesperson, Raquel Sans.
The leader of ERC, Oriol Junqueras, and the vice president of the Generalitat, Laura Vilagrà, will attend the plenary session of Congress for a debate and a vote that, more than the amnesty, may be worth the legislature.
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