All the information about the amnesty law in this EL PERIÓDICO special.
The amendment to the entirety against the amnesty law presented by Vox proposes sentences of six to ten years in prison for negotiating parliamentary matters with convicted persons or fugitives from justice. If the Popular Party has taken advantage of the text of its amendment to propose the dissolution of parties that call for an illegal referendum, Vox has gone one step further. In addition to insisting on the illegalization of pro-independence parties, they propose acting against “those who cooperate, collaborate, meet or facilitate actions in order to negotiate the matters processed in the Cortes Generales with those who have been convicted by a judicial sentence or who are prosecuted or removed from the action of justice, for any of the crimes sanctioned in titles XXI, XXII or XXIII of this Book II” of the Penal Code. That is, crimes against the Constitution or public order, such as sedition, attacks against authority or public disorder.
In the cases indicated by the far-right formation in the text that they registered this Wednesday in Congress, all the condemned by the ‘procés’ and also those fleeing from Justice like the former president Carles Puigdemont or the MEP Toni Comín.
Before the end of the year, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, confirmed that he would hold “several meetings” both with Carles Puidemont and with Oriol Junqueras throughout the legislature. The socialist leader justified that the most important thing is “political normalization” which involves a meeting with the former president of the Generalitat. His number three in the game and deputy in Congress, Santos Cerdánalready met with Puigdemont in Belgium to negotiate the investiture agreement and at the beginning of December he did so again in Switzerland, within the monitoring table of said pacts.
Other modifications are also included in the Vox amendment to punish “offenses or outrages verbally, in writing or in fact” with fines of twelve to twenty-four months. to Spain, or to its symbols or emblemscarried out with advertising”.
As in the case of the PP, illegal referendums are also targeted in order to expressly prohibit them and punish their promoters. “In any of the modalities provided for in the Constitution,” it is stated, “he will be punished with a prison sentence of three to five years and absolute disqualification for a period of between three and eight years.”
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Last November, the PP overturned a Vox motion in the Senate to outlaw pro-independence parties, but now defends this possibility for the future if the Catalan pro-independence parties call for an independence consultation again. As explained this afternoon by the spokesperson for the popular parties in Congress, Miguel Tellado, “Sánchez has left their hands free [a los independentistas] to do it again if that’s what they want. And the independentistas say that is what they want.
Along these lines, Tellado has justified to the media the legal change included in his amendment to the entirety “to include a series of crimes of constitutional disloyaltypunishing those authorities, public positions, public officials who promote non-observance of the laws or non-compliance with judicial resolutions, seeking harm the unity of our countryand criminalizing declarations of independence and illegal referendums or consultations and promoting the dissolution of organizations or legal persons that commit any of these crimes.”