The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez feijoo, announced this afternoon that, if he arrives at Moncloa, he will “reverse” the legal reform that will benefit the independence leaders accused of sedition. The PSOE and United We Can registered this Friday a bill in Congress to replace the crime of sedition with another of “aggravated public disorder” with a maximum sentence of 5 years. In the Penal Code Currently that sentence can reach up to 15 years. Oriole JunquerasERC leader, for example, was sentenced to 13 years for sedition.
“I wonder what is the limit of Sánchez in his assignments to continue in the Government? It does not exist. I believe at this point that it no longer has limits”, sentenced Feijóo in an institutional statement read at the Genoa headquarters. The conservative leader said that the head of the Executive has accepted “independence blackmail” with the sole objective of “overcoming his parliamentary weakness” and without even ensuring “the compensation of non-recurrence.”
“Neither Sánchez nor the independence movement can criminally cheapen attacks on the Constitution,” Feijóo declared.
“I would not only have never made this decision, but also, I am going to reverse it if I am Prime Minister, because neither Sánchez nor the independence movement can criminally cheapen attacks on the Constitution,” he declared to close his speech of 13 minutes. In the front row they listened to him Cuca Gamarra and Elijah bendodo, numbers two and three of the party, with whom he met this Friday in the early afternoon to prepare the intervention. Feijóo had landed around two o’clock in Madrid, after his Latin American tour that had him out of Spain for a week.
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The PP leader denounced that the coalition government is “legislating crimes à la carte with those who have committed them and who announce their will to reoffend”, in reference to ERC.
The president of the popular once again appealed to the PSOE to react. “The PSOE is more than Sánchez & rdquor ;, he launched. “When borders are crossed in a nation, you have to take the floor. Either you are with the convicted and escaped, or you are with democratic legality. The moral duty of those socialists who agree with us is to make their position public & rdquor ;, he settled. This Friday the presidents of Aragon and Castilla La-Mancha, Javier Lambán and Emiliano García Page, respectively, showed their discomfort with the sedition reform.
This initiative by Sánchez allows the leader of the popular party to reaffirm his decision not to negotiate the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ). Two weeks ago, he said that he was suspending the negotiations due to his fear that the Executive would modify that crime to please the Catalan Republicans.
The reform promoted by the Executive allows the leader of the popular party to reaffirm his decision not to negotiate the renewal of the CGPJ
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But, of all the parties, the one that has taken it more calmly has been Vox. Its president, Santiago abascalwrote on Twitter that he already filed a motion of censure in October 2020 against the socialist leader and the popular (then led by Pablo Casado) and the liberals voted against. Abascal, who has not given a press conference since February, announced that he will attend the media on Monday.