Unexpected setback for Pedro Sanchez with denial of amnesty
- January 31, 2024
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The separatists he leads Puigdemontwho will be the main beneficiary amnesty, thereby delaying the consideration of a law that will cover up the crimes of more than a
The separatists he leads Puigdemontwho will be the main beneficiary amnesty, thereby delaying the consideration of a law that will cover up the crimes of more than a thousand Catalan politicians and activists. And they do it because They don’t want to leave anyone behindJunts representative Miriam Nogueras spoke in parliament to justify their sudden abandonment of the agreed law they had supported until last week.
Why did the independent youths change their minds? Because the Socialists do not accept that amnesty will benefit those accused of terrorisma crime with which the controversial Spanish judge Manuel García Castellón intends to charge Carles Puigdemont, living in Belgium since 2017, for some of the violent protests recorded in Barcelona in 2019 and for which he holds the former responsible, despite the distance. President of the Catalan government.
Oriol JunquerasRepublican Left of Catalonia) and Carles Puigdemont (Together for Catalonia)
The amnesty law will be put to a vote again in the near future. month in parliament. Now it remains to be seen who will give in in this fight: independent politicians or the Sanchez government.
“Humiliation”
” humiliation It’s constant (…) Every vote is a test,” he criticized Sanchez. Alberto Nunez Feijooleader of the People’s Party (PPConservative), the first opposition party.
Younts, a highly unpredictable ally, demanded that the Socialists vote for amendments designed to counteract recent decisions two judges this could prevent the amnesty from including Puigdemont.
Faced with the Socialists’ refusal, seven junta deputies voted against the bill, which received 171 “yes” and 179 “no”.
Photo: Reuters
The law must ensure that this “comprehensive amnesty” “Leave no one behind,” MP Miriam Nogueras warned from the podium before the vote.
Is “it is not clear that Younts voted against”both the right and the far right, which “want to imprison them and outlaw them,” said Presidential Minister Félix Bolaños, who asked the independence party to “reconsider its position.”
This amnesty was a non-negotiable condition imposed by the separatist parties in exchange for their support needed for Sánchez’s re-election.
If approved, the measure would lead to courts dropping charges against hundreds of independence activists and leaders for their roles in Catalonia’s 2017 secession attempt, one of modern Spain’s worst political crises.
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