“Of course there will be an Amnesty law,” the Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Cortes, the socialist Félix Bolaños, assumed this Wednesday in an interview with Jordi Basté in El món a RAC1. Given the cautions of Junts per Catalunya, which stopped the processing of the norm that next week will be debated again in the Justice commission in the Congress of Deputies, the minister has called on Carles Puigdemont's party to reach a definitive agreement . “The law leaves no one behind,” he assured.
“I have no doubt that there will be an agreement and that there will be an Amnesty law,” Bolaños confided. “And I have no doubt because we share the objective, which is that we are able to approve a law that covers all the people who were involved in the independence process and that we end the criminal, civil and accounting procedures that they have,” he stressed. . This objective, he has highlighted, is shared by an absolute majority of Congress, including Catalan independence parties.
The minister has insisted on trying to clear up Junts' doubts so that the rule also covers the alleged crimes of terrorism or high treason attributed by certain judicial and fiscal bodies. “The law covers all the people who were involved in the independence process, the current law, the law that is today agreed upon by all the groups that support that law, covers all the cases that occurred in the independence process, it does not leave “Nobody was out,” he stressed. “Everyone,” he reiterated.
Bolaños did not want to talk about specific cases, such as those of Carles Puigdemont or Marta Rovira - although he did recognize that the rule will also benefit police officers immersed in judicial processes due to the 1-O charges - but he stressed that "the law It is made with the purpose of covering all the people who participated in the independence process, without a doubt.” Any higher judicial body, he has recalled in any case, can revoke the resolutions issued by lower instances.
“The purpose of the law is to cover everyone, and the law covers everyone,” he insisted, despite the fact that Puigdemont's lawyer, Gonzalo Boye, has detected “holes” in the scope of the law.
“We are clear about where we want to go, which is to open a new stage in Catalonia,” he defended. “Put aside the criminal, accounting and civil procedures that the people who were in the independence process currently have, and from there be able to build a better Catalonia,” he argued. Up to 400 people - school directors, officials, firefighters... - have pending cases, according to what he has indicated. “For this reason, I have no doubt that there will be an Amnesty law.”
Bolaños has insisted on not publicly revealing the conversations that are taking place with Junts in this regard, so as not to interfere or harm possible progress. But he has acknowledged that negotiations continue: "Of course we are having contacts, but it is essential that we do it as always, with discretion."
The minister, in any case, has defended that the norm that comes out of Congress must be “absolutely impeccable”, “because we know that it will be a law that will be highly attacked by the right, who will appeal it in all judicial instances. that I can”, both before the Constitutional Court and before the European Union. For this reason, he has highlighted that “every line” of the law has been analyzed “rigorously” by experts in criminal, administrative, constitutional and European law.
Bolaños, on the other hand, has referred to Alberto Núñez Feijóo's script twist on pardons, amnesty or the attribution of terrorism crimes to the process. The minister has assured that the leader of the Popular Party has thus dynamited the opposition strategy that he had been carrying out since he took office. “The PP only had one issue of opposition to the Government, which was the pardons, the amnesty, the terrorism that according to them had occurred in the independence process. And that only issue that the PP had of opposition to the Government was a lie, it was absolutely false,” he stated. “We already know what Feijóo thinks.”
Now, after the revealed contacts of the PP, in which he would have considered pardons and amnesties, Bolaños has assured that "I am convinced and I have the impression that what they have recognized is the tip of the iceberg of what they offered to Junts and other parties ”. But the PP, he has warned, “had a small problem”, which is the far-right Vox, without whose support Feijóo would not have achieved the investiture that he sought.
“I have the impression that what the PP has recognized that it offered to Junts is the tip of the iceberg,” Bolaños reiterated. “Of course, they offered Junts and other groups everything to obtain Feijóo's investiture,” he concluded.
