The acting president of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, “He is right” to have “bet” on the amnesty to the Catalan independence leaders, according to an editorial published by the British media ‘The Guardian’. In the text, the newspaper considers that Sánchez is right to assume the risk of an amnesty “and not just for reasons of political self-interest.”
“Sanchez will have work ahead of him to reconcile the majority opinion, and to many members of the justice system, with their agreement with (Carles) Puigdemont and company. But as a bastion against far-right extremism, its continued presence will be good news for the country and for Europe,” the newspaper notes.
For ‘The Guardian’, the acting head of the Executive “is known for his political bets, but this could be the greatest of all“.
“Very fractured” political landscape
After having ruled out an amnesty before last July’s elections, “The mathematics of the result forced him to reconsider“, despite the fact that, according to the editorial, “polls suggest that more than two-thirds of Spaniards oppose an amnesty and the rehabilitation of the bellicose Puigdemont will probably be even less popular.”
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For ‘The Guardian’, in a political landscape “very fractured and polarized“The foreseeable investiture of Sánchez is “a confusing and fragile result, but one much better for Spain than a government led by the PP, which would have taken the far-right out of the refrigerator for the first time since the end of the dictatorship.”
After highlighting that pardons “helped defuse confrontations poisonous poisons that led to the worst constitutional crisis since the return of democracy”, the newspaper considers that the socialist negotiator Santos Cerdán was correct in considering that the current talks offer “a historic opportunity to resolve a conflict that could – and should – only be resolved politically”.