He former leader of the Catalan National Assembly (ANC) and former general secretary of Junts, Jordi Sanchez, warned this Saturday that the amnesty “by itself” would not resolve the conflict between Catalonia and the rest of Spain. “The solution to repression must be a democratic conquest to try to recover a point of equality of conditions to follow the path”, he assured.
“Believing that the political conflict is resolved when situations of repression are resolved is a mistake for those who believe it,” he stated in his speech at the event organized by CIEMEN to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Declaration of Rights. Colectivos de los Pueblos, held this Saturday at the Ateneu Barcelonès.
The amnesty, in any case, has said that it is “the solution that is fair and necessary” for people who have suffered “repression and persecution”, from “anonymous people” to former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, Efe reports.
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also him would be applicable to the pro-independence leaders who were sentenced with him by the Supreme Court and that, although they were pardoned, they continue to serve a sentence of disqualification, as in the case of the president of ERC, Oriol Junqueras.
The Supreme Court declared both Sànchez and Jordi Cuixart’s sentences extinguished, with the penal reform that repealed sedition and limited the sentence of the leaders of the sovereigntist organizations to a crime of public disorder.