The main leaders of the PP finished the extraordinary parliamentary day in the Senate satisfied with the result. Different barons and senior officials consulted agreed this Thursday to celebrate the opportunity to hold a debate on the amnesty of the ‘procés’, a measure of grace that ERC and Junts demand and that could be the key to the investment by Pedro Sánchez.
The acting head of the Executive, according to these sources, continues to “hide” for not giving explanations about the amnesty negotiations with the independentists, despite the fact that he himself said in September that he would clarify his position when King Felipe VI will appoint him for the investiture, something that happened more than two weeks ago. “This debate in the Senate has allowed us to denounce it and highlight it to all Spaniards,” said an autonomous president. According to parliamentary sources, the absence of the Government and the socialist autonomous barons in the session of the Upper House underlined that “Sánchez and the PSOE are embarrass of the amnesty.” “We have to try to make it bad and difficult for Sánchez and that is what we can do from the Senate,” says another parliamentarian in reference to the absolute majority that the PP has in this Chamber.
“How to ask for forgiveness”
For conservative training, the possible amnesty It would be like admitting that the State he was wrong to punish to those who broke the laws in search of the independence of Catalonia in 2017. The leadership of Alberto Núñez Feijóo rejects a legal initiative that, from his point of view, would mean “apologize to the independentists.” This is what the PP said in a statement it issued at noon. Several of the regional presidents who spoke in the debate, among them Juanma Dark (Andalusia) and Marga Prohens (Balearic Islands) focused on that idea. “Would be like ask for forgiveness and tell them that they never had to be stopped, that they should never have been courts neither convicted nor imprisoned nor disabled“said Moreno. In summary, he stressed, it would be to recognize “in 2023, in the 21st century” that the Spanish State “has been pursuing political ideas.”
In the statement from the PP leadership it is considered that the possible amnesty would also seem to show that it was a mistake to apply the article 155 of the Constitutionwhich led to the intervention of the Generalitat of Catalonia and the dismissal of its entire Government, with Carles Puigdemont to the head. The conservatives remember that Sánchez then supported Mariano Rajoy using 155 to stop the sovereign challenge. “The amnesty is nothing other than the recognition of our country’s guilt in what happened in those days,” the statement states.
For Feijóo’s party it is “dramatic” for the Cortes Generales that the ‘president’ Pere Aragonès has gone to the upper house to defend the grace measure and the central government has declined the invitation to the debate, promoted by the PP. “He democratic respect for the cameras “should be protected by the big parties,” they complain about Sánchez’s decision that his barons (Navarra, Castilla-La Mancha and Asturias) have not participated in the debate.
“If this indignity triumphs, soon there will be no Spaniards,” Ayuso said.
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Isabel Díaz Ayuso, president of the Community of Madrid, accused the socialist leader of pursuing a “scorched earth policy of fait accompli.” “It has been said that if this crime is committed, there will be two types of Spaniards; but it is much worse: if this indignity triumphs, soon there will be no Spaniards,” she said at another time, raising the tone of her party in the debate. “How long does a nation last that allows itself to be betrayed, that denies its laws, their institutions and those who risked their lives for them?” he asked.
“International” uncertainty
In his turn in the debate, the president of the Valencian Community, Carlos Mazon, warned the acting head of the Executive that the amnesty will have an unknown cost for all Spaniards “in an international environment more uncertain than ever.” “In democracy we are all worth the same and all votes are worth the same. Let Sánchez know that blackmail never ends if the person being blackmailed does not stand up,” he stressed.