Junts per Catalunya and the PSOE are accelerating contacts to agree on a tweak to the amnesty law that will iron out the differences that separate the two parties.
The main obstacle continues to be in the wording of the law, which Junts wants to tweak to have the absolute guarantee that Carles Puigdemont, its leader, and others implicated in different cases of terrorism or high treason, crimes that would be outside the amnesty, will not They are forced to enter preventive detention once the amnesty is approved.
The Government insists that this is already guaranteed in the current wording of the law, because it will be impossible to prove that Puigdemont and others had the "direct intention" to kill, and they also believe that the procedure for high treason for the so-called Russian plot will remain in place. nothing because after six and a half years there seems to be no solid evidence.
Junts is pressing to retouch the crime of terrorism, an apparently immovable red line for the PSOE, but also demands to explore other of its amendments that in its opinion guaranteed that the judges really apply the amnesty as soon as they approve it and lift any precautionary measures, including the European orders against Puigdemont or any temptation to send him to preventive detention if he returns to Spain.
The Executive insists that this is already in the law, but Junts has already registered several amendments to finish the wording and in one of them it added this text: “As well as when the procedure is suspended by virtue of the raising of any prejudicial question before the Court of Justice of the European Union”.
The discussion continues and the socialists insist that the law is fine as it is, and in this they have the support of ERC, although there are still several days to reach the first deadline, which is Wednesday, and there would still be a second if extends the deadline for another 15 days.
Junts sources insist that a way must be found to restrict the judges' margin of discretion.
The effort is to incorporate a technical solution that, until the amnesty takes full effect, avoids the provisional detention of those involved in any case related to the
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During the meeting held this Wednesday in Barcelona by the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, and the general secretary of Junts, Jordi Turull, each party tried to mark their red lines.
Turull acknowledged this Thursday that “there may be many” meetings with the PSOE, but did not reveal how mature the agreement is.
The method that Junts applies in the negotiation traces the pulse that the same party raised in previous parliamentary deals, such as the election of the Congressional Board or the tortuous approval, last month, of two decrees with economic measures.
Regarding the amnesty, Junts does not take anything for granted, but it is admitted that the handshake may be close: “There is a common objective, we just need to find a way so that one party can consider that the law already covers everyone.” the world and the other party continues to have guarantees of constitutionality.”
An idea that, for the moment, has proven to be more feasible in theory than in practice.
Junts tries to manage the negotiations with the PSOE secrecy, but when asked if there is concern about whether the amnesty law leaves someone in particular unprotected, the answer is blunt: “the law has to cover all the people who need to be deck".
The judicial relief for Puigdemont, founder and ideologist of Junts, is in question after the recent judicial proceedings carried out by Manuel García-Castellón or Joaquín Aguirre, investigating judges of the
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If he ends up prosecuted for terrorism or high treason, his freedom may be entangled, since these are criminal offenses that conflict with an amnesty.
The conversations between both formations advance conditioned by the particularity of having a sentinel guest at the same table: Esquerra Republicana.
Junts maintains that the party in charge of the Generalitat maneuvers to boycott the advances that the text may incorporate, because each turn of the screw to the amnesty represents a scratch to the negotiating reputation of the Republicans.
“Esquerra is putting pressure on the PSOE so that nothing is moved, because a modification would imply making it clear that what they wanted to approve in Congress was not a good text for all the defendants,” says a source close to the Junts leadership.
“Esquerra is not an obstacle because we want the law to be approved, the sooner the better,” replies an authorized voice from ERC.
“What we are not going to accept is a law so tampered with that it does not then pass the filter of the Constitutional Court.
If this doesn't work out, let Junts eat it.
"They are so lost that they don't even know what they are asking for, and they seem to be unaware of the extent to which they are straining the rope."
From Junts they defend that the negotiation is unrelated to personal or political interests.
Something that, they maintain, does not happen in Esquerra: “If we now improve the law and it is clear that there were twenty people, ten from Tsunami and another ten from Voloh, who were left uncovered by the bill that ERC validated in Congress, “What position is your negotiation in?” asks a person with position and command at Junts.
Esquerra has the theory that “no draft will be so perfect as to avoid the invectives of some judges.”
The Minister of Social Action of the Generalitat, Carles Campuzano, who before approaching ERC was a member of Convergència, stated this Thursday that Pedro Sánchez is “open” to pardoning those who are left out of the amnesty and that going around the parliamentary procedure is “irresponsibility and a lack of respect towards a hundred people who could benefit from this legal text.”
Jordi Turull responded: “Following his criteria, the 1-O referendum would not have even been held.”
The interest generated in the PSOE by the Galician elections this Sunday also enters into the equation, Junts maintain: “They have to decide if they are interested in announcing the agreement before or after the Galician elections.
We in Galicia have nothing at stake.”
The socialists, however, have accepted a negotiating meeting in Barcelona in the middle of the Galician campaign, which seems evident that they are not very concerned about the influence that the amnesty may have on these elections.
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