The president of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, of the PSOE, has stated that he has "many questions" about the "self-amnesty" posed by the Catalan independentists and has advocated for the intervention of the Constitutional Court in the event that Congress approve it.
"We have many questions about what the independentists are raising. Don't they consider it immoral that they themselves vote for their apology, a self-amnesty? They vote for themselves. If not, it doesn't come out. In general, when we are affected by a decision, we are absent," has assured at the 'Autonomous Table: 40 years of autonomies. Challenges and opportunities', from the La Toja-Vínculo Atlántico Forum.
It was moderated by the director of the Felipe González Foundation, Rocío Martínez-Sampere, and García-Page stated that today there is talk of amnesty but in the future it "could be proposed for corruption or another nature."
He has defended that "even in the event that Congress approves it, the Constitutional Court will have to analyze it before it comes into force. I have not the slightest doubt that the Constitutional Court would have to suspend what is approved before it is approved." come into force, because the consequences of seeing Puigdemont entering and even presenting himself in the elections, and that later a constitutional ruling could come against it, would be immeasurable.
"I want to trust that the central positions of my party will continue to be the defense of the Constitution and unity, because it guarantees equality," he warned.
García-Page has been accompanied by the presidents of Galicia, Alfonso Rueda (PP), and the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo (Canary Coalition), at the La Toja Forum, in which they have defended the "success of the State of the autonomies."
The La Mancha leader has warned that "whoever wants to break unity" does so with the intention of "having a separate life or privileges", while saying that "it is not bad" to have "healthy competition" between each territory.
Alfonso Rueda has maintained that "the voices that speak of recentralization are very minority" and has advocated for "advancing equality" between autonomous communities, which is "what has allowed the harmonious development of the country."
"If this equality were broken, the autonomous State would be in serious trouble," he warned.
Clavijo has pointed out that "the problem of playing something that has been a success" is knowing "where we want to go" and has stated that the "political context" is not appropriate, that the debate "has not occurred because there is a great agreement to improve", but because "some want to leave Spain".
García-Page has advocated for "crystallizing a filter mechanism to an anomaly of the democratic system": "I am not saying that forces - nationalists - that only represent themselves and have no vocation for Spain do not go to Congress, but, as president autonomous community that I cannot go to Congress, what I demand is that if Congress or the Government has to adopt a decision that affects all the autonomies, before that crystallizes, there is a body that we can be part of.
An idea shared by Clavijo, who has advocated creating that body in which the regional administrations meet.
Regarding debt forgiveness, García-Page has said that "what could be assumed by the State is that which arises from regional underfinancing" and the president of the Canary Islands has reasoned that, "if we talk about historical debts, all" communities have them, also the islands that it presides over.
Rueda has stated that all the autonomies will consider that they should "receive more funding", but he has made it clear that, "if there are individual requests based on supposed millennia-old grievances, we will end up destroying the entire system."
The president of Galicia has alluded to the Galician Nationalist Bloc, without naming it, and has stated that this formation is based on the idea that "the only way to do things well is to subtract the State's capacity" and demand powers "by the kilo." .
The Canary Islands president has pointed out that "co-governance", for which "nothing needs to be modified" is in the Constitution, "is a matter of political will", and has given the example of Spain's "change in policy" with Morocco , an issue in which the Canary Islands "were neither involved nor aware of it."
