If the diagnosis is to turn the page on the process and we have to end up pardoning, why not amnesty before and save the work of justice? This is the thesis that the Government maintains and that the Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Óscar Puente, expressed this Friday in Barcelona. The minister
has not ruled out the granting of pardons for those people who may be excluded from the Amnesty law, as stated yesterday by the Minister of Social Rights, Carles Campuzano, but has asked to approve the law to "save work for justice" and thus avoid trials that end up leading to a pardon.
The minister, who appeared this Friday during the inauguration of the new section of the B-40 between Olesa de Montserrat and Viladecavalls, referred to the words of Campuzano, who yesterday said that the Government was contemplating thanks measures to those people who did not receive the amnesty, to indicate that "they are not nonsense." However, he has opined that if the Executive's will is to "turn the page" on the events of 2017 to "continue moving forward" it makes no sense to carry out a judicial process to end up pardoning.
For this reason, he has considered that the Amnesty law is the "most necessary, most convenient and most useful" solution at this time, because, in his opinion, it will avoid "a judicial pilgrimage that ends in a pardon." "Let's save the work of the justice system, which doesn't have enough resources either," the head of Transport justified.
"We want to remove the situation from the courts, so that there are no criminal consequences for the people who participated in these events," insisted Puente, for whom the amnesty "saves efforts" for the Spanish judicial system.
For the minister, "ending once and for all those who were involved in that conflict would be very good for the whole of Spain and of course for Catalonia", which is why he has asked for "responsibility and common sense" from everyone in view of the approval of the rule that is stuck in the Congressional Justice Commission in the absence of an agreement with Junts.
At this point he has charged against the PP, whom he has accused of "inflaming public opinion and citizens from behind", while in front "he has negotiated and admitted the diagnosis" in an act of "supreme hypocrisy", in reference to the words attributed last weekend to a senior PP official about Alberto Núñez Feijóo's willingness to give a conditional pardon to Carles Puigdemont. Faced with this, Puente has exposed the Government's "completely different" attitude with the pardons and now with the amnesty.
"I am surprised that in the PP there are those who say that they submit to trial and then we pardon them. Well, man, let's save the work of justice, which is not very resourceful either," the minister said.
Next Wednesday will be the first deadline set in Congress for the Justice Commission to approve a new opinion on the rule, after the law has been rejected by Junts in plenary session and returned to the commission, which must be voted on. then in the plenary session. A period, however, that can be extended by a maximum of another 15 days, until March 7. This week it has been confirmed that the distances between PSOE and Junts remain, which has led Esquerra and the socialists to increase pressure on Puigdemont's men.
At the moment, everything indicates that the post-convergents will vote against again, but they will push the negotiations to the end, convinced that the pressure will allow them to incorporate the amendments that, in their opinion, dismantle the accusation of terrorism in the Tsunami Democràtic cause that instructed by the judge of the National Court, Manuel García-Castellón, as well as that of court number 1 of Barcelona, which is being investigated by Judge Joaquín Aguirre, for the alleged Russian plot of the process, in which Puigdemont is intended to be charged with high treason.
