The Amnesty law, which passed yesterday with 178 votes in favor, and which is expected to return to Congress for final approval, still faces an intense obstacle course in the Senate, where the PP, which holds the absolute majority, It plans to delay it as much as the regulations allow.
The endorsement of criminal oblivion has been left in the background by the emergence of the Catalan electoral call on the political map and by the relentless dispute between PSOE and PP over the corruption plots of the Koldo and Ayusogate case.
However, there is still no amnesty and the processing of the law will circulate on the calendar in parallel to the electoral campaign in Catalonia, which has blurred the future of Pedro Sánchez's legislature. At the moment, it has already taken over the State budget and has opened a bitter dispute within the coalition government between PSOE and Sumar.
The socialists accuse Yolanda Díaz of not controlling En Comú Podem and of not acting to convince its leader, Jéssica Albiach, to save the accounts of the Government of Pere Aragonès. They put ex-mayor Ada Colau in the spotlight.
However, at last Sunday's event organized by the commons in Barcelona, at which time Aragonés began to weigh the electoral advance, both the harsh statements made by Albiach or Colau and those of the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, were bothered. And this is what Aragonès made known to Yolanda Díaz in the telephone conversation they had on Monday night, reminding her that Urtasun is also a spokesperson for Sumar.
It didn't help at all. The commons carried out their threat the next day and ERC sources explain that on Wednesday, while the Parliament was still debating the entire amendments, the president wrote the speech in which he would announce the call for elections. He asked for pages from his collaborators and wrote the arguments about the reasons that led him to advance the elections and that hours later he would present at a press conference.
The electoral campaign in Catalonia now opens a path of uncertainty and exceptionality that will block any government initiative. The Republicans disdain the movements of Junts, which plan to place Carles Puigdemont as a candidate and consider that the enemy to defeat is Salvador Illa. The good understanding that both ERC and PSC sources maintain has prevailed in the budget negotiations will be set aside from today, when the Catalan socialists begin their ordinary congress.
For now, this Sunday Pedro Sánchez will offer his first pre-election rally in Catalonia within the framework of the PSC congress. An appointment that had been scheduled for months, but now takes on special relevance. Illa and Sánchez have held conversations these days about the electoral advance, an issue that, according to PSC sources, has not caused concern.
PSC and ERC arrive at the electoral campaign with their homework done. The two parties had anointed their candidates some time ago. The same does not happen in the rest of the formations.
In Junts, although there are already voices that place Puigdemont, Anna Erra and Josep Rull as a trident to head the list, it has not yet been decided. Puigdemont will not speak until next week, although almost everyone in the party assumes that he will appear. Another thing is that he can return and be present at the investiture plenary session, as the former president expressed. The cumbersome judicial future that lies ahead of the amnesty could destroy this aspiration.
Nor has En Comú Podem chosen Albiach as a candidate. In the end, the electoral calendar has fallen on them.
