Bolaños closes the door to the consultation on independence and stresses that 1-0 is not “decriminalized” with the reform of sedition and embezzlement
one day after the PSOE and ERC they agreed to reduce embezzlement, from which those accused of the ‘procés’ may benefit, and that the Republicans advocated a referendum in Catalonia in which independence could be declared as long as the participation was more than 50% of the census and the votes in favor add up to at least 55%, the central government has made it clear that will not allow this query.
An initiative of this type, the Minister of the Presidency, the Minister of the Presidency, pointed out on Tuesday on TVE, Felix Bolanos, is “contrary to the Constitution & rdquor; and therefore “it cannot be celebrated& rdquor ;. At a time when the right is attacking the Executive for its understandings with ERC and in which the PSOE barons fear the cost of these pacts in the municipal and regional elections next May, Bolaños, a trusted man of Pedro Sanchez and in charge of relations with the Republicans, has been blunt. There will be no referendum in Catalonia “in no case & rdquor ;, The minister said, “neither by the agreed route nor by the unilateral one& rdquor ;.
The consultation, has continued, would mean “chronify the conflict & rdquor; and “divide Catalan society& rdquor ;, while the Government, through measures such as the reform of the Criminal Code, which also includes the repeal of the crime of sedition for which the leaders of the 1-0 were convicted and its replacement by one of public disorder, seeks “quite the opposite & rdquor; . In this sense, he recalled that at the dialogue table that brings together the central Executive and the Generalitat, it was agreed to “do politics within the law & rdquor ;.
The scope of the legal change
Bolaños has also denied the scope that the Republicans grant to the reduction of embezzlement, that when there is no profit motive, As happened in the 2017 referendum, it will be punished with a maximum sentence of four years in prison compared to the current 12 in its most aggravated aspect.
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The new article, which will be 433 of the Penal Code when it is approved (the plenary session of Congress will vote next Thursday), says: “The authority or public official who, without being included in the previous articles, grants the public property to be administered a public application different from that to which it was intended, will incur prison sentences of one to four years and special disqualification employment or public office of two to six years, if it results Serious damage or disruption of service to the one who was consigned, and of disqualification from employment or public office of one to three years and a fine of three to twelve months, if it results & rdquor ;.
According to ERC, it would not be applicable to what happened on 1-0, since then there was “no damage or serious hindrance to the service.” The opinion of the Government is very different. “According to the facts proven in the judgment of the ‘procés’, there is none of those that were committed in 2017 that is decriminalized. Everybody is penalized with some new crimes such as aggravated public disorder or irregular budgetary deviation & rdquor ;, Bolaños has argued.