“If there is any change, it will be minor, of a technical nature,” the same interlocutors point out about the future law, which exempts from liability all actions declared or classified as crimes linked to the independence process between January 1, 2012 and November 13, 2023. According to the Government’s calculations , they will benefit from the measure of grace 309 people from the sovereigntist sphere with criminal proceedings, as well as 73 national police officers and about 30 prosecuted by the Court of Accounts.
The socialists take it for granted that the law will go ahead with the vote in favor of the parties that facilitated Sánchez’s investiture except the Canary Coalition, adding 178 seats, two above the absolute majority: the PSOE, Sumar, ERC, Junts per Catalunya, EH Bildu, the PNV and the BNG. Everyone will give their approval to both the articles of the norm and its explanatory memorandum, that to reconcile the positions of the socialists and those of the republicans and post-convergents, it carries out complex balances between the defense of the Constitution and the absence of reproaches to the ‘procés’.
The comparison with pardons
This Wednesday, during the celebration events of the 45th anniversary of the Magna Carta in Congress, Sánchez himself has stopped at the transcendence of the amnesty project. For the head of the Executive, an initiative of this type means carrying out “state policy”, with “height” of views. Although he recognizes that the “majority” of citizens still do not agree with this measure, as reflected in the survey published by EL PERIÓDICO on November 28, the socialist leader believes that, as happened with the pardons, his positive effects on coexistence, in Catalonia and throughout Spain, will end up being perceived by society.
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“We have to contribute to coexistence in Catalonia. The amnesty is state policy. When we talk about the height of State, it is also about contributing together to coexistence. The virtue of the amnesty is that it goes beyond the judicial aspect and represents a return to politics. Citizens show doubts and misgivings, as happened with the pardons. They are norms that represent an exception. It is a matter of time putting things in their place, and that is going to happen,” Sánchez said in an informal conversation with the press in the Lower House.
“Sooner or later a decision of this nature had to be made. I do not have an absolute majority in Congress, but there is a majority more than absolute in favor of this measure,” concluded the President of the Government.