The former Aragonese president, Javier Lambán, assured this Friday that the amnesty law that Carles Puigdemont is demanding to begin negotiating an investiture agreement with Pedro Sánchez does not fit "not even remotely" in the Spanish Constitution, as "jurists and qualified socialists”, and warned that, if it materialized, “it would lead us Spaniards into a very dangerous drift”.
The socialist baron was elected senator today after losing the presidency of the community in the last regional elections against his PP rival, Jorge Azcón. In his subsequent attention to the media, he maintained that the “most effective” thing the State has done so far to “appease and stop” the Catalan independence movement has been “the application of 155 in 2017.”
In this sense, he recalled that the Government of Spain at that time, "with the support of the PSOE and Pedro Sánchez", decided to intervene in the Generalitat government after it took measures that amounted to "a full-blown coup against the Constitution, the commission of a very serious crime.”
Lambán believes that the amnesty law is not going to happen "because the PSOE has always been against it", but that, if it finally happens, "it would open a watershed in the constitutional ship that could sink it."
The Aragonese has never hidden his preference for large State pacts between the two large national parties, although he acknowledged that it is an option that now "does not have much chance of prospering."
That is why he assures that, to this day, the only possible option for the Government is a parliamentary majority led by Pedro Sánchez, although he assured that this possibility is "terrible news" for autonomous communities such as Aragon. “The more dependent the governments of Madrid have been on the Basque and Catalan separatists, the worse things have been for the rest of the Spanish autonomous communities,” he asserted.
The general secretary of the PSOE-Aragón, who will remain in that position until he is relieved at the next regional congress, also fired a bullet against "the procession of the leader of Sumar (Yolanda Díaz) through Brussels", in reference to their meeting with Puigdemont in the European capital.
“It is the most obscene thing I have seen in Spain since the Constitution was approved and democracy began. I think that the image we give to the partners and friends of Europe is deplorable,” he reproached.
With his words, Lambán aligns himself with other socialists of the old socialist guard such as Felipe González or Alfonso Guerra. Although he assured that "it neither adds nor subtracts" to the words that both have spoken in recent days against the amnesty law, he stressed that "when they speak, we must listen to them because of the historical role they played in the refoundation of the PSOE and the modernization from Spain".
With his appointment as regional senator, Lambán heads to Madrid and brings to a close his Aragonese period, which began in 1983 as a councilor in Ejea de los Caballeros, his hometown, and led him to preside over the community for the last eight years.
Already in the capital of Spain, Lambán will meet again with other regional presidents of his party ousted in the last election, such as Ximo Puig from Valencia, Fernández Vara from Extremadura and Concha Andreu from Rioja.
