The former vice president of the government and historical socialist leader Alfonso Guerra warned this Tuesday that a negotiation with the ERC that culminates in the reduction of the penalties for the crime of sedition contemplated in the Penal Code could be "electorally harmful" for the PSOE, and has underlined that "people have a nose" and do not accept "monsergas".
Alfonso Guerra spoke in this way in an interview on Canal Sur Radio, regarding the commitment made by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, after arriving at Moncloa to reform the crime of sedition to reduce his sentence, and which has become topical for the request of ERC so that it materializes once and for all, coinciding with the debate of the general budgets of the State (PGE).
The also former Deputy Secretary General of the PSOE has recalled that "the Government" of Sánchez "justifies" that this possible reform of the crime of sedition "goes separately" from the negotiation of the PGE of 2023, but has warned that "people have the fly behind the ear", and "if they are negotiating the budgets and they put on the table" that matter, "very separate I don't think they will go".
After adding that "drawing budgets" forward "is always a very complicated task for any government", Alfonso Guerra has opined that "lowering the sentences of people who have been convicted of sedition - alluding to those convicted by the procés - is very difficult, very hard to accept".
In line with this, he has warned against "nonsense" such as the one that, as he has criticized, "is now heard every day", and which goes through "saying that Bildu is doing what we asked" the democrats, "to leave the shots and come to the polls", and in the face of this, Guerra has pointed out that "we asked more things" of that party, "that it condemn terrorism" by ETA, "that it help us discover the murders" of crimes pending clarification, and has commented that "they do nothing like that" from Bildu.
"People have a nose, and people don't accept all this type of negotiation, and electorally it's going to be harmful for the PSOE", predicted Alfonso Guerra, who underlined that these are "such delicate matters that they in themselves need a lot of reflection", and that he has pointed out that "the socialist electorate is a little worried".
In addition, he has criticized those "who are with this story" that with the reform of the crime of sedition the aim is to put the Criminal Code "at the level of Europeans", and has asserted that "that is a lie", because "Europeans have all kinds of laws, varied", and, although "in the terminology they use, sedition does not exist, the sentences are as high or higher than here" for this type of assumption.
