An email at 2:30 a.m. from Sunday to Monday, with the amnesty law attached, is the last text that ERC has in hand. Republicans started looking at it this morning. They are still at it. They have technical-legal doubts that they want to study, first, and if possible resolve during the processing of the norm in Congress. and if it can be resolved during the processing of the norm in Congress. And one of the points that they observe with a magnifying glass falls on an issue that those of Oriol Junqueras consider essential: that it be clear that the cases related to the Democratic Tsunami and the twelve members of the Committees for the Defense of the Republic (CDR) detained accused of terrorism, after the previous Junts review, will be amnestied.
Marta Rovira, general secretary of the party, is being investigated for terrorism. Also Ruben Wagensberg, member of the Parliament's Bureau. Or Marta Molina, secretary of social movements of Esquerra. This is partly where the party's interest lies in not leaving any loose ends or legal loopholes.
The text of the amnesty relating to terrorist crimes is under the heading of exclusions, that is, cases that should not be covered by the law. “Acts classified as crimes of terrorism punishable in Chapter VII of Title XXII of Book II of the Penal Code are excluded from the application of the amnesty (...) as long as a final sentence has been handed down and they have consisted of the commission of some of the conduct described in article 3 of Directive (EU) 2017/541 of the European Parliament and of the Council of March 15, 2017.”
In Esquerra there are doubts on this point, caused in part by the judge's order on Tsunami, which came shortly after the PSOE and ERC announced the agreement for the investiture. The training does not give details.
Of course, as ERC spokesperson Raquel Sans assured this morning, despite the fact that the Republicans maintain their own pace of analysis of the text, different from that of the PSOE. “It is not going to derail,” said the Catalan leader.
In any case, Sans downplayed the possibility that the amnesty law would be registered even before ERC certified the text. The ERC spokesperson insisted that the text must cover anyone linked to the organization of the consultation of November 9, 2014, the referendum of October 1, 2017 and the subsequent protests.
From Junts they point out that the final agreement on the drafting of the amnesty law proposal was closed in the morning, after reviewing the last pending issues.
In recent days, although the agreement was already taken for granted and the political pact was even signed in Brussels, the post-convergent party had continued to closely review the document relating to criminal neglect to ensure that no cause related to the process remains. outside the scope of the standard.
This Monday morning, the review came to an end and the text published by the media before lunchtime is the final version negotiated between JxCat and the PSOE. “Now in Esquerra they are having a tantrum,” say sources from Carles Puigdemont's party, who remember that two weeks ago they said that they had already “closed” an agreement regarding the amnesty law with the socialists. “It is an attack of horns,” add the sources consulted.
In fact, the spokesperson for the party in the Congress of Deputies, Míriam Nogueras, one of the people who has been part of the negotiating team, spoke along a similar line in statements to TV3 and threw the occasional barb at the Republicans. “Two weeks ago we were told that there was a closed pact with an agreed amnesty law, but we have not seen the text,” said the Junts leader in Madrid. “When the text is agreed and closed we will all see it. From what I know, this is what Junts and the PSOE have been working on for weeks and they are working discreetly and very rigorously,” added Nogueras, shortly before the review was concluded and the document.
