Hundreds of people who would benefit from this law – Catalans participating in the referendum held in 2017 without a legal basis and the subsequent declaration of independence approved in the Catalan Parliament, among other activities deemed illegal – were left in limbo after on the same day of the vote, Junts noted that the legislation he approved was not good enough to prevent its leader from being charged with terrorism or treason.
On the eve of the vote, it became known that a judge in Barcelona decided to extend the investigation into the so-called Voloh case, that is, the alleged Russian influence among people in the Carles Puigdemont circle. Judge Joaquín Aguirre suspects that the current MEP, in collusion with Moscow, carried out actions to change the territorial integrity of Spain in the process that culminated in a unilateral declaration of independence. If the accusation goes ahead, Puigdemont will not be included in the amnesty law, which excludes the crime of high treason, as well as crimes that threaten the peace of the state and the financial interests of the European Union.
Old problems president Catalonia with Justice does not stop there. Manuel García Castellón, coach of the so-called Democratic Tsunami case, on Monday also extended the investigation into Puigdemont and Catalan MP Ruben Wagensberg for another half year. In the document, García Castellón classifies the protests organized in October 2019 against the rulings of independence leaders as terrorism, and that the maker of the democratic tsunami is Puigdemont himself.
Given these new data, Gwent representatives met via videoconference with the party leadership, and it was decided that the seven would not approve the law unless the amendments were incorporated into the law. In the legal statement that the PSOE and Somar agreed with other parties on the Justice Committee, Gantz wanted to include the possibility of amnesty for any crime linked to the Catalan independence movement, including those classified as terrorism or treason – a claim rejected by the coalition. Concerts. In this way, Gontz found himself in the paradoxical position of voting against a law in which activists and supporters were honored, but not its leader.
Junts' position was not followed by the Esquerra Republica de Catalunya (ERC) party, nor by the president of the region, Pere Aragonès, also from the ERC. “The amnesty law is a strong law, and it is clear that it can continue to be worked on, but the most important thing is that it can be approved to overcome the repression that currently restricts freedoms in Catalonia,” Aragones said during a visit to Brussels.
On the right, the leader of the People's Party continued his tactic of demolishing the Socialist leader's controversial agreement with the Catalan separatists. “It's a boost,” Alberto Nunez Viejo said during his speech to Congress. “The PSOE pushes, independence gets, and the only goal is for Pedro Sánchez to continue as prime minister.” He continued: “Here we heard the representative sending [Míriam Nogueras, do Junts] Arguing that amnesty should be universal, that there is judicial repression, that judicial leadership is corrupt, and that judges are evasive. What did the government and the Minister of Justice do? He indicated that they should be silent and leave.
Pedro Sanchez also entered silently and left the parliamentary session silently.
The bill, which was generally approved, now returns to the Justice Committee, which has 15 days to present a new text that overcomes the mistrust that Puigdemont alluded to at the end of the day: “There are judges who have decided to investigate me on charges of terrorism.” “On the same day we had to announce the agreement with the Socialist Workers’ Party, after four years of negativity, and no one in the judicial system cared.”
