Pere Aragonès warned on Sunday in the interview given to La Vanguardia about the existence of “very powerful enemies” who “will try to boycott the application of the Amnesty law in its spirit and form.” It is possible that these enemies do not need to work very hard to overthrow the norm because it is already worn out due to the lack of agreement between its promoters. The intention of the PSOE was to present yesterday agreed amendments to the law between all the majority groups, but the usual disagreements between ERC and Junts prevented this.
The two Catalan independence parties agree on eliminating the reference that excludes acts classified as terrorism crimes from the Amnesty law, but not on how to do it, and that is why they presented separate motions. In theory there is time in the debate in committee to agree on a common position, but if they do not do so, and Junts rejects the ERC motion and vice versa, the reference to terrorism will be included in the law.
In essence, it is always the same: the absolute distrust between the two pro-independence formations, which the PSOE is now experiencing firsthand: what it agrees to with one is rejected by the other and the same thing happens the other way around. In fact, lawyers from both parties have not been able to meet at the same table with socialist lawyers in recent days.
Everyone wants to make an immaculate law so that it can overcome the judicial appeals that will be presented against it, but they are unable to agree on how to protect it well. It already cost the socialists a great effort to agree on the law with the two independence partners and it was on the verge of causing the shipwreck of Pedro Sánchez's investiture.
The judicial reaction with the reactivation of cases that were dormant, such as the Tsunami Democràtic, only corroborates that the final text must be impeccable for the different judicial levels to give it approval. The positions of Junts and ERC were still very bitter yesterday and it will not be easy to find a solution.
