After the commotion caused by the latest order of the judge of the National Court, Manuel García-Castellónin which he ignores the prosecution and insists on the alleged crime of terrorism that would affect Carles Puigdemont In the ‘Democratic Tsunami’ case, the former president has charged against the magistrate and against the very “existence” of the court. In a message on social networks, Puigdemont considered that the National Court should be “dissolved” and that García-Castellón should be “condemned for his responsibilities in the persistent violation of the rule of law.”
The MEP has also assured that the State has “structural problems” that are “congenital” and has warned that the objective of the independentists cannot be to “remove Spain from the pit of democratic discredit into which it has gotten itself.” “The objective is the anti-repressive fight, it is to remove as many political, police and judicial paws from our people as possible,” he stated in X.
Comprehensive amnesty
All this in a week that will be decisive for the final drafting of the amnesty law. Next Tuesday, the Congressional Justice Commission must vote on the amendments that ERC and Junts have presented – separately -, in which both formations include the elimination of terrorism as a cause of exclusion in the amnesty. A movement with which the two pro-independence parties want to ensure that the grace measure covers all the cases opened by the process, also those of the CDR and that of the Democratic Tsunami that the judge is investigating García-Castellón.
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Faced with this scenario, Puigdemont has also defended that the law cannot “exclude any of those persecuted for defending the independence of Catalonia” and has warned that, if not, it would be an attempt to a “kind of general pardons“, something expressly prohibited in the Constitution, as the independence leader has taken it upon himself to remember in a message on the networks. “Without a general amnesty, which does not exclude anyone, there is no amnesty,” said the former president and leader of Junts.
The Spanish State has structural problems that cannot be fixed, because they are congenital. The maximum they can do is to carry them, which is a verb that works as a catch-all. Do you have a problem and don’t you know how to solve it? Easy: the entail. The ultimate existence of the Audience…
— krls.eth / Carles Puigdemont (@KRLS) January 19, 2024
Negotiations between formations are currently ongoing, although, for the moment, the PSOE refuses to make changes in the initial drafting of the law on this point, which excludes convictions for terrorism in the event of a final sentence. The socialists are committed to maintaining the current formula, despite also the latest report by the lawyers of the Justice commission, in which the jurists of the upper house consider that not only can this exclusion not be eliminated, but they believe that it should be toughened. the text, also including “complicity, induction and attempt” with acts of terrorism. It is a text, however, not binding.