"The answer is quite simple: no." With this blunt denial, Pedro Sánchez has denied this Friday having sent any emissary from the Government or the PSOE to negotiate with Carles Puigdemont and propose, as the former president of the Generalitat revealed, "happy solutions" to his personal situation, through of a pardon or a reform of the crime of sedition, having been on the run from Spanish justice in Waterloo (Belgium) since 2017. Statements to which the Popular Party has in turn clung to deploy a new offensive against the president of the Government: "Who is Mr. X of the PSOE who visited Puigdemont?".
Sánchez, this afternoon at the end of the Spanish-Portuguese summit held in Viana do Castelo, has denied Puigdemont, and by extension the PP, that he did not send any socialist emissary to go to Waterloo to offer a personal outlet to the former president to facilitate his return to Catalonia. In the Moncloa, meanwhile, they denounce that Puigdemont and the formation led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo feed off each other with their respective confrontation strategies, to try to destabilize the Prime Minister. But asked if then the former president of the Generalitat is lying, Sánchez has limited himself to answering: "I can speak for myself."
The head of the Executive has also demanded that the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) unblock the pending appointments of magistrates in the Constitutional Court (TC), after Feijóo suspended the renewal of the governing body of the judges while Sánchez does not expressly waive lowering the penalties for the crime of sedition. "I hope, because we are already a little late, that the General Council of the Judiciary complies with the law, and sooner rather than later we can already have the proposal of its two magistrates for the Constitutional Court", he confided.
"Given that the main opposition party has subscribed to the problem and not to the solution", he warned after the breakdown of the negotiations by Feijóo, Sánchez has demanded that the governing body of the judges "contribute to not This constitutional crisis that has caused the blockade of the PP to an institution as important as the Constitutional Court can be extended. The head of the Executive has thus recalled that the TC has yet to resolve appeals from the right against some of the main laws promoted by the Government, from labor reform to legislation on abortion or euthanasia.
Sánchez has trusted that the CGPJ undertakes the appointment of the two pending magistrates that correspond to him from the TC, without imposing new deadlines, but he has implied that if this is not the case, the Government will appoint the other two magistrates that correspond to him in the court of constitutional guarantees. “I cannot say when, but there is no doubt that the Government of Spain will comply with the Constitution. We are going to comply, logically, with the Constitution”, he has settled.
