Sumar supports the position of the PSOE, its partner in the Government, of putting a limit in last Tuesday's plenary session that stopped the approval of the amnesty law in Congress to Junts' claims to introduce more amendments to maximize the benefits. for that measure of grace, including terrorism crimes.
But the platform led by Yolanda Díaz distanced itself in several votes from the rest of the progressive investiture bloc that defeated those claims as a “political gesture” towards Carles Puigdemont's party.
Junts put eight amendments to a vote, the majority alone, but three with the PNV and another with ERC.
All were rejected, but some had the symbolic support of Sumar or his abstention.
Sources from that parliamentary group acknowledge that they distanced themselves from those PSOE votes because they knew that the amendments were not going to succeed and to “keep the dialogue open” and reinforce their “role as mediators” in the face of the new negotiations that will now open in the commission. of Justice.
On Tuesday, in the extraordinary plenary session with the amnesty law as the only point, the new digital screens that have been installed to simplify the voting system and enable more means for the translation of interventions to all members were debuted in the Congressional chamber. co-official languages of the State.
The innovation was not liked by many speakers and generated some protests.
But the voting took place normally, after some brief explanations from the president, Francina Armengol.
At 4:42 p.m. voting began and a few minutes later it was confirmed that all the amendments proposed by Junts, four alone, three in transaction with the PNV and another with ERC, were widely defeated, with a block of votes against that ranged from 305 and 293 noes.
But only one was left with the seven affirmative votes that Junts has in the lower house.
The others gathered between 57 and 34 adhesions.
Some of this support, and in another case abstentions, came to Junts from the Sumar benches, the formation of Yolanda Díaz, as
El Mundo
announced and EL PAÍS has corroborated.
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Nothing foreshadowed this unexpected collaboration in the intervention before the plenary session of the spokesperson for the occasion of Sumar, the deputy Gerardo Pisarello, from En Comú Podem, who took the opportunity to harshly attack the right that opposes the amnesty, against the judges in general and Manuel García-Castellón in particular.
That parliament ended with the message that the objective of the norm is already “getting through,” and that now “a new time for dialogue and recognition of the plurinationality” of the country is opening to “resolve common needs.”
Then, at the time of the vote, Sumar fluctuated between yes to some Junts transactions and abstention, “but as a symbolic gesture to keep the non-reactionary bloc united or with some bridge and already thinking that it will be necessary to recover the debate and the negotiations regarding what may happen in the Justice commission,” according to sources from its management.
Despite this specific support for the Junts amendments, sources from the Sumar leadership assured that there are no fundamental discrepancies within the Government and that they fully support the position adopted by the PSOE.
The minority partner of the Executive advocates intensifying the negotiations and trusts that the independence party will become somewhat more flexible.
The new parliamentary spokesperson for Sumar, Íñigo Errejón, in an interview in EL PAÍS this Wednesday, called for the “responsibility” of Junts and asked them to reconsider the situation and “take charge” of the “effort” they are making with the amnesty the Government and “the Spanish progressive society”.
Immediately after the 23-J elections, Sumar launched himself into playing a mediating role with Junts.
Yolanda Díaz entrusted it to the former Catalan deputy Jaume Asens, with great prestige before Puigdemont.
The vice president did not hesitate to be the first to meet and be photographed with the
former president
who fled in Brussels.
Despite everything, the idea has also been established in Sumar's management that Junts is going too far in its constant pressure on the Government, especially as a result of the previous negotiation so that the independentistas did not block three crucial executive decrees.
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