In separate calls to the media led by their leaders in Catalonia, this morning the Popular Party and Citizens have questioned the Government's decision to repeal the crime of sedition to establish a new criminal offense in accordance with European standards.
For the popular ones, it is not an adaptation as the socialists maintain, but rather an "imposed suppression" by the independentistas, while for those of Carlos Carrizosa the reform of the Penal Code supposes an "unprecedented attack" on the system of democratic guarantees .
The president of the PP of Catalonia, Alejandro Fernández, has outlined in the Parliament the reasons why he considers that the measure will not strengthen the rule of law or the institutions but will weaken them, by protecting, from his point of view, "impunity "of those who promoted the independence process and encouraged non-compliance with the laws.
Fernández has accused the President of the Government of "systematically lying" since he arrived at Moncloa, since Pedro Sánchez promised, as he recalled, to toughen the penalties for the crimes for which the procés leaders were tried and promised not to pardon them .
In addition, the leader of the Catalan PP has questioned whether the "detente" policies defended by the PSOE and United We Can from the central government are having an effect in Catalonia, where the "culture of disobedience" is promoting, in his opinion, the march of companies and the increase in illegal occupations of homes. "We are worse than ever according to all economic and social indicators," he has sentenced.
Following the line drawn by Inés Arrimadas, who has pointed out from Congress today as a "black day for democracy" and has described Sánchez as "a gentleman without scruples" because, in her opinion, he benefits "a handful of delinquents" to continue in Moncloa, the leader of Citizens in Catalonia, Carlos Carrizosa, has affirmed that the legal modification is equivalent to "final point laws" that will allow "a new coup".
In this sense, Carrizosa has lamented that the government's decision supposes the "validation" before the European public opinion of the "disintegrating" story of the independence movement, which places the leaders of the procés as "democrats" against an "oppressive" Spain. However, far from the "desinflammation" that is intended, the president of the Citizens group in Parliament has announced, "the problems are going to exacerbate."
"Whoever wants to reduce inflammation should take nolotiles, but not alter the democratic state", exclaimed Carrizosa, for whom the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, is pleased to have achieved the "decriminalization" of sedition in a "table of blackmail", in reference to the dialogue table between the Spanish and Catalan governments, which acts, in his opinion, with "opacity" with the aim that both executives "guarantee" continuity.
The independence leaders condemned by the Supreme Court "never repented or asked for forgiveness", argued Carrizosa, for whom now Oriol Junqueras or Jordi Turull, but also the "escaped", such as Carles Puigdemont, have achieved "victory" while the constitutionalists who lived with "extreme anguish" the events that occurred in the fall of 2017 are defeated.
