As it was six years ago, at the height of the independence process, Ciudadanos wants to become in 2023 one of the leading actors in the response that Spanish constitutionalism is preparing for the hypothetical amnesty of those prosecuted for 1-O, which is why which, beyond the planned mobilizations, does not rule out going to court to "defend the rule of law from this blackmail."
The parliamentary arithmetic in Congress has put on the political board the claim of the pro-independence parties, particularly Junts per Catalunya, led by former president Carles Puigdemont from Brussels, for an amnesty that nullifies the crimes of which a man is accused. thousands of people linked to the independence movement, but Ciudadanos, Carlos Carrizosa has assured, is not going to remain silent in the face of the "gravity" of the political moment.
"We all know that the constitutionalist world in Catalonia is perpetually ignored, if not directly attacked, by the institutions and that we suffer significant reductions in rights that have been traditionally denounced for many years by civil associations such as Impulso Ciudadano," said Carrizosa in the Parlament together with the president of this entity, José Domingo, after the meeting they held this afternoon.
"We have agreed that there is an alarming lack of information on the part of the Socialist Party about the extremes that are being negotiated with Mr. Puigdemont and with ERC," explained the leader of Ciudadanos in Catalonia, who has demanded "explanations" from the Government chaired by Pedro Sánchez and has announced that his party will participate in the announced mobilizations, among them, the one that the Catalan Civil Society is preparing for Sunday, October 8 in Barcelona.
In this sense, Carrizosa recalled that last week he addressed his counterparts Salvador Illa (PSC) and Alejandro Fernández (PP) to ask for a meeting in which to express to the socialist and popular leaders in Catalonia his rejection of their parties will enter into any type of negotiation with Junts: "That in no case should they lower the dignity of Spain and constitutionalism by sitting down to make concessions to someone who escaped in a trunk," he reiterated this afternoon.
"We participate in this need for unity of constitutionalism, between political parties and civil society, because we believe that it is the tool of civic and political pressure to prevent the Government from continuing to deteriorate our democracy and our institutions," exclaimed Carrizosa, whose objective is that "Sánchez abandons this attempt to lower Spanish democracy to make an agreement with a fugitive from justice."
"I think we can achieve it, but for that we need to mobilize," the leader of Ciudadanos has been encouraged, to whom the president of Impulso Ciudadano, José Domingo, has supported: "The investiture agreement is intended to provide us with the best possible government, "but it will be detrimental if the bases of this agreement are the independence groups, who are not concerned about the general interest, but rather about the particular interests of separatism."
Domingo, who was one of the first Ciudadanos deputies in the Parliament, has asked for transparency in the negotiations between Sánchez's and Puigdemont's teams, a person who, in his opinion, "is disqualified from doing so", since, from his point of view, In view, this type of agreement with the pro-independence forces can question the Spanish constitutional system. For this reason, he has announced that Impulso Ciudadano can take the hypothetical amnesty to the Ombudsman as a first step, since it could lead to the "fracture of Catalan and Spanish society."
"Let's not cloud the next few years with a permanent judicial conflict," however, Domingo has asked, who plans to take legal action to stop a hypothetical amnesty and has warned of the "degree of legal conflict that a measure of "criminal relief" could cause. "like the one that is being proposed. "This is not a simple law that is approved and stops producing effects, it occurs for many years, and citizens will be harmed if the civil liability of those who cause damage to public assets is no longer pursued," he concluded.
