The PSOE spokesman in Congress, Patxi López, defended this Saturday that the reform of the Criminal Code to suppress sedition and replace it with "aggravated public disorder" will serve to help justice and also to improve coexistence in Catalonia.
This has been pointed out by the socialist spokesman in the Lower House in an act this Saturday morning at the PSC headquarters in Barcelona, where he has described the sedition reform as a "brave and very common sense" measure in the face of a " reactionary" PP: "The PP has been and is the gasoline for political life in Catalonia and we socialists are the extinguisher in everything that has happened".
López has assured that the objective of the modification of the Penal Code is to "help justice", since in 2017 the jurists held "an enormous debate" because "they were not clear about what crime or what penalties" should be applied: "Well, well, now we clarify it with this reform".
In addition, he recalled that the Spanish justice did not find collaboration with other European countries in the euro-orders, "since there was no comparable crime" because the requirement of double criminality was not met: "There will no longer be sanctuaries in Europe for who commit crimes of public order".
"We adapted to the current reality a definition that was 200 years old, and what we do is Europeanize it," said the socialist leader on sedition.
In addition, López has assured that the reform helps "to coexistence, dismantling the pieces of a huge problem, which became the great problem of Spain and that today is not thanks to the PSOE".
The socialist spokesman in the lower house has defended that the reform contributes to breaking the "victimism" that brings together the independence movement, which has resulted in the division of the political movement.
Regarding the reaction of the PP to the reform of the Penal Code, Patxi López has assured that the popular "have no sense of State, nor vision of the country, nor democratic culture", and has assured that they are not "conservatives", but " reactionaries".
López has also responded to the accusations of treason, assuring that for them it would have been "being in the Government and doing nothing to solve the problem of coexistence" in Catalonia.
"The one who sat down to smoke a cigar while the problems grew was Rajoy," he stressed.
"Are we going to lose votes with this? I say no, if we win coexistence, we will also win the elections, people will recognize a government that makes policies to solve their problems," López stressed.
The socialist leader has made it clear that they will never leave "constitutional legality", which is what defines the space for "difference, but also for negotiation and agreement" between different.
López also pointed out that Salvador Illa will be "the person who is going to lead the transformation of Catalan society", since "he is going to be the 'president' who proposes a new social pact in Catalonia".
