While Junts and the PSOE maintain their differences on the Amnesty law that is being processed in Congress, Esquerra insists on putting pressure on its pro-independence rivals to give in to their claims of protecting the rule for all cases before the judges. In this sense, the Minister of Social Rights of the Generalitat, Carles Campuzano, assured this Thursday that the Government is “open” to pardoning those who do not apply the Amnesty law. Along the same lines, the president of Esquerra, Oriol Junqueras, has maintained that voting against the law, as Junts did, is a “mistake” and, in his opinion, means “failing to protect some 1,500 people from persecution.” unfair.”

After a week marked by Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s revelations about the possibility of considering a conditional pardon for Carles Puigdemont in the middle of the Galician election campaign, Minister Campuzano stated in an interview on El Cafè d’Idees on Ràdio 4 and The 2 that “we know that, if there are people who are ultimately not included in the amnesty, the pardon mechanisms exist and the Spanish Government is logically open to resolving these situations through pardons, if appropriate.”

“Everyone knows that, because the Government, out of conviction or necessity, has decided to close the repression folder definitively and this is the window of opportunity that the Catalan political parties must know how to take advantage of,” he added.

However, the possibility of a pardon for those who may be excluded from the application of the amnesty poses a problem in the case of expatriates, especially for Puigdemont, since it would imply being tried previously and therefore returning to Spain, where in all likelihood he would be arrested and imprisoned in preventive detention.

In any case, Campuzano, who was a deputy for Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya for decades and who is now part of the ERC Government as an independent, has considered that, by voting no to the Amnesty law, Junts has shown “very little respect” for the hundreds of ordinary people prosecuted who could have benefited from it.

“Junts is not Convergència,” he said, but it is “unpredictable” and has lacked “finesse” – he reiterated – when it comes to taking advantage of the moment to close “the folder of repression and open that of politics and dialogue.” background”.

For his part, Junqueras has maintained that voting against the law means “failing to protect some 1,500 people from unjust persecution.” For this reason, he considered in an interview in La Sexta that Junts would be “very wrong” if they voted against the law again and highlighted that the current draft covers all cases and that it is a robust norm, he said verbatim.

Junqueras has defended that there has not been any act of terrorism in Catalonia, so it would not be necessary to include this reference in the law: “Including certain concepts harms the law from later passing the filters of a European preliminary ruling or the Constitutional Court.”

Junqueras has maintained that “whoever wants the law to do well, to serve, to be useful, to provide justice where there is injustice, should make a law that can resist this type of filters” of the TC or the European preliminary ruling.

A socialist delegation formed by the Minister of the Presidency and Justice, Félix Bolaños, and the organizational secretary of the PSOE, Santos Cerdán, met yesterday in Barcelona with the post-convergent general secretary, Jordi Turull, and the group’s spokesperson in Madrid, Miriam Nogueras. The meeting only served to reaffirm the distance that separates them, since the PSOE does not want to change the text that came out without a quorum in Congress, and JxCat insists that its amendments, passed in the Lower House, are the best guarantee for the norm do not leave anyone accused of the process outside the umbrella of criminal oblivion.