The former Spanish president Felipe González He assured this Wednesday that it is “intolerable” the future amnesty agreed with the Catalan independence movement by the Spanish Government and said that it can “have the cost of destroying the foundations of a legal system of a full democracy.”
“Many citizens continue to think that amnesty is forgiveness, that it is like pardons (…) Amnesty is not forgiving, it is asking for forgiveness from those who committed the crimes, which means that our system is illegitimate, and its behaviors and aspirations are illegitimate. “That seems intolerable to me,” expressed the former president of the Government in an interview with the La Noche program on the international channel NTN24.
González, who governed between 1982 and 1996, spoke out in the midst of a strong confrontation between the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) and the conservative Popular Party (PP) together with the far-right Vox, after Pedro Sánchez was sworn in as president of the Government with the support of the Catalan independence deputies.
These parties made amnesty a condition for those involved in the Catalan secessionist process, which is strongly opposed by right-wing parties.
In this sense, González, a member of the PSOE, stated that he does not “collide” with the position of his party but, on the contrary, “defends the positions, the resolutions of Congress, the declarations, etc., until July 24 “, the day after the elections, where the PP got more votes but not enough to form a government.
Since then, Pedro Sánchez, leader of the PSOE, has sought the support of other parties, from the left of Sumar to the Basques or Catalan independence parties.
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“I am not entering into a legal debate, I am saying that the positions of my party have been these. From July 23 to 24, what happened? “The only thing that happened is that seven votes were missing and seven votes cannot have the cost of destroying the foundations of a legal system of a full democracy,” he stated.
Next he added: “That is my personal position and there are many others who share it. “Now it can be seen as personal, but if you look at the last five months it was the position of all the leaders of my party, without exception.”