Ciudadanos wants to stop the reform of the Penal Code proposed by the groups that support the Government and demands that the PP, the main opposition party, endorse Inés Arrimadas's proposal and present a motion of censure in the Congress of the Deputies.
With this measure, the spokesman for the team for the refoundation of the liberal party, Guillermo Díaz, has defended, the processing of the repeal of the crime of sedition would be automatically paralyzed and, although the censorship was predictably defeated, the Government would be forced to postpone the change legislature until next spring, very close to the regional and municipal elections in May.
In this way, the deadlines managed by Pedro Sánchez would be broken, Díaz reiterated, for whom the Prime Minister intends that the sedition reform "go unnoticed" and not have electoral costs for him. And that is why he raises it now, just before the World Cup and at a time of "political break" in which this "stab at democracy" may be, in the opinion of Ciudadanos, blurred.
"The PP has to get its act together in this matter and make the idea of Ciudadanos its own, as Vox has done. It cannot be that it is out for grapes," Díaz concluded in a dart towards the leader of the opposition, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who has ruled out for the moment the presentation of a motion of censure doomed to parliamentary failure. Even so, all the initiatives would be stopped until the motion is debated and, according to Ciudadanos sources, the legislative proposals would be delayed until after Christmas.
From Barcelona, the spokeswoman for the autonomous committee of Catalonia, Anna Grau, has insisted on the same arguments and has harshly charged against the modification of the Penal Code, something that she sees with "deep concern" because she fears that the reform will also extend to the The crime of embezzlement, "modern corruption", Grau has expressed, with which the Government seeks to "maintain the procedural spree".
In this sense, Ciudadanos fears that the changes "ad hoc for the coup plotters", in reference to the promoters of the independence process, also seek to benefit José Antonio Griñán, the former socialist president of Andalusia sentenced to prison for the ERE case. It is, in the opinion of the deputy in the Parliament, an "unworthy money laundering" that can also end with the calling of a "secession referendum" in Catalonia.
"This must be stopped," exclaimed the spokeswoman, for whom the Government of Spain is "thrashing" and "overwhelming" the citizens of Catalonia who are not independentists. A situation in which Ciudadanos, Grau has announced, is not going to be "in profile". "Catalonia is the beach of Normandy in Spain", she assured to underline the maximum importance that the party gives to the current political situation.
