Many eyes were focused yesterday on the interventions of Esquerra Republicana and Junts per Catalunya to gauge to what extent they planned to take their dispute to capitalize on the development of the amnesty law. But the news was that there was hardly any trace of the elbowing that was given during the negotiation of the investiture of Pedro Sánchez, but that the duel was more constructive for the common cause that both defend. And both parties agreed to take the aforementioned bill for granted in order to move towards the next political scenario: the holding of an independence referendum.
The first to speak in this duel was Josep Maria Cervera. The Junts co-spokesperson congratulated himself for having become clear that the amnesty law is going to be a “way of returning to politics what belongs to politics,” in reference to the end of the judicialization of the conflict.
And midway through the speech he sublimated the role played by his training, pointing out as a virtue that “when Junts enters the equation, things happen that were considered impossible,” such as the processing of a legal text that the PSOE refused to even address in the last legislature.
But Cervera did not stop at the appropriation of merits and outlined the future scenario as soon as the law is approved. A new stage that “in no case will be a renunciation of the independence of Catalonia,” he warned.
When it was ERC's turn, Gabriel Rufián started his presentation defending “amnesty as a political solution that settles a debt with Catalonia.” The Republican spokesperson, who directed a good part of his speech to Alberto Núñez Feijóo, reproached the PP leader for his “poor argument” to oppose the criminal oblivion while caricatured his accusations of “electoral fraud” by recalling that the proposed law It has the support of the majority of Congress.”
Rufián, who minutes before entering the chamber advanced the possibility of his group presenting corrections to the text, “above all, amendments that can be passed,” also wanted to advance his roadmap beyond the amnesty. And looking this time at both the PP and PSOE benches, he pointed out from the speakers' gallery that “in Catalonia we are prepared to win or lose a referendum. Are you?” (...) “I say this because four years ago a plenary session like this was impossible,” he boasted, awarding ERC the achievement.
