The acting Minister of the Presidency, the socialist Félix Bolaños, sent letters this Tuesday to the Vice President of the European Commission, Vera Jourová, and to the Commissioner of Justice, Didier Reynders, to which La Vanguardia has had access, in the which attaches copies of the amnesty bill registered yesterday by the PSOE in the Congress of Deputies, and asks both of them for a meeting, “as soon as possible”, to defend this legislative initiative.
Bolaños has thus addressed Vice President Jourová, “in her capacity as head of Values and Transparency in the European Commission”, to inform her that the socialist parliamentary group presented on Monday afternoon, in Congress, the proposed organic law of amnesty “for the normalization of the institutional, political and social situation in Catalonia.” The minister has attached a copy of the already registered document to his letter.
"As I am sure that this is a topic of interest to you, although the text must now follow the corresponding parliamentary procedure, I would like to have the opportunity to hold a meeting with you as soon as possible, to be able to explain the Government's position." of Spain on this matter,” Bolaños told Vice President Jourová.
In the same sense, the Minister of the Presidency has sent a letter to Commissioner Reynders, who last week asked the Government for explanations regarding the future amnesty law. “As a continuation of the letter I sent you on November 8, I inform you that the socialist parliamentary group presented yesterday afternoon, in the Congress of Deputies, the proposal for an organic amnesty law for the normalization of the institutional situation, political and social in Catalonia,” Bolaños communicated to him, also with an attached copy of the legislative initiative.
"Given this situation, as I told you, although the text must now follow the corresponding parliamentary procedure, I request that we hold a meeting as soon as possible, to be able to present the position of the Government of Spain on this matter," he proposed. also Minister Bolaños to Commissioner Reynders.
The spokesperson for the acting Executive, Isabel Rodríguez, stated after the last meeting of the Council of Ministers before Pedro's investiture debate, that sending these letters to the competent officials of the European Commission "was the Government's commitment." “Last week, when we responded to the letters we had received, we could not give them any response regarding the implementation of that legal text, because it did not exist then,” she justified. “It has been registered since yesterday and, therefore, it is a fulfilled commitment, from the tranquility of having known yesterday an important legislative text for our country, impeccable from a legal point of view and anchored in the constitutional framework,” he assured.
The minister spokesperson has thus assured that "we are delighted to be able to talk and transmit this content with the European institutions."
In this sense, the Executive spokesperson has condemned “the escalation of violence” that is taking place in protest against this amnesty law and the imminent inauguration of Pedro Sánchez. “Once the legal text is known, many have run out of arguments,” warned Isabel Rodríguez. “The problem is no longer a law that is clearly impeccable from a legal point of view, perfectly framed in our Constitution, but rather that they do not accept the parliamentary majority that supports it,” she said. “And this is neither more nor less than democracy,” she stressed.
Although the amnesty law proposal has finally only been registered with the signature of the spokesperson of the socialist group in Congress, Patxi López, contrary to Pedro Sánchez's initial claim that it was a joint initiative, this norm counts as a starting point with the support of an absolute majority of 178 deputies for its processing and subsequent approval. To the 121 votes of the proposing group, Sumar (31), Esquerra Republicana (7), Junts per Catalunya (7), EH Bildu (6), the PNV (5) and the BNG (1) are added. That is, all the groups in the bloc of the yes to the investiture of the PSOE leader, except the Canarian Coalition, which opposes this amnesty.
Against the amnesty law, however, there are 172 deputies: those of the Popular Party (137), the far-right Vox (33), the Navarro People's Union (1) and the Canarian Coalition (1).
“The fewer arguments, the more insults. The more frustration, the more violence and the more decibels. But the responsibility of those of us who believe in democracy is debate, dialogue and accepting the rules of the game,” the Government spokesperson concluded.
