The Minister of Territory of the Government, Ester Capella, responded this Saturday to Junts' criticism of the scope of the amnesty law agreed between ERC and the PSOE: "A well-made amnesty law does not have names," she stressed.
This was underlined in statements to Catalunya Ràdio, after yesterday Friday the general secretary of JxCat, Jordi Turull, sent an internal message to the leadership of his party in which he disqualified the agreement reached by ERC and the PSOE and guaranteed that Junts will not allow "an amnesty for VIPs."
Capella has denied that the content agreed upon by ERC with the socialists is an "amnesty for VIPs" and has pointed out that it "reflects the solution for the repression unleashed", which led, according to her, to an "application of the law not foreseen by the party itself." right".
There are still several obstacles to be resolved in the negotiations on the amnesty law between the PSOE and Junts, among them the cases that affect the CDR, members of the Mossos d'Esquadra and officials of the Generalitat in 2017.
For Capella, the amnesty is necessary because "the lack of dialogue (on the part of the state) has led to repression and the State has had to do things outside the law."
Furthermore, he has minimized the differences with Junts on the amnesty: "We all agree on the general framework, we must reset the counter to zero with an amnesty law."
But "sometimes, in law, the solutions are not mathematical", which in his opinion explains why Junts and ERC have "different visions" and negotiate the drafting of the rule separately. Capella has also assured that "the process is not over", but rather "it has entered a negotiation phase."
"At this moment on the other side of the table there is someone who recognizes your legitimacy," he noted, after pointing out that in politics "things do not happen as if a mushroom were growing", but are a matter of "work" and "time." ".
In another vein, Capella has denied that the State is going to have a "right to veto" in the mixed company that the PSOE and ERC have agreed to establish to manage the Rodalies (Cercanías) service instead of Renfe: "It is not the first public company in which several administrations participate".
The agreement for the investiture of the socialist candidate, Pedro Sánchez, contemplates the creation of a commercial company under the name Rodalies Catalunya to replace Renfe as the operator of the service: its board of directors will be made up of equal parts by the State and the Generalitat - with a casting vote for the president, proposed by the Generalitat - and "strategic" decisions must be made by qualified majority.
Capella has explained that the company's statutes will define which decisions will be "strategic" - which, therefore, the Generalitat cannot take without an agreement with the State - and has denied that this is equivalent to a "right to veto." ".
