It was an open secret, but the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragones, has been in charge of confirming it. ERC has decided to present amendments to the amnesty law that the PSOE registered alone last Monday. Aragonès has defended that the rule “has been worked on for months with a very important degree of rigor”, but that his party sees issues that could be improved. “We want to have freedom to present amendments“, he concluded in an interview this Friday with Telecinco.
What amendment will Republicans present? The president has not revealed itbut one of the aspects of the law that worries ERC is how the issue is regulated of terrorism. As the norm is now defined, Esquerra’s fear is that the case of Democratic Tsunami and that of the CDRin the hands of the National audiencemay have obstacles to availing themselves of the measure of grace.
“In the event that some improvement can be made, we will not stop proposing it,” he said. Aragonese. Although he did not want to give details, he did offer some clue of what the problem could be: “We do not want to leave any loophole that tries to adulterate the meaning of the law.” In short, they want to protect it legally because they know that the list of candidates who will want to challenge it will be long.
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Furthermore, Aragonès has warned that the rule does not provide “coverage” to the case for which the former president of the Parliament and leader of Junts was convicted. Laura Borrasbecause it is not a fact “related to the independence process. The leader of the posconvergents was convicted of rigging contracts during her time at the head of the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes (ILC).
That has been another of the obsessions of CKD to protect the amnesty. That it did not provide coverage for cases that the Republicans They consider that they are linked with corruption and in no way with the 1-O referendum, the 9-N consultation or the mobilizations against the ruling of the Supreme Court.