"There will be no reductions in sentences for crimes of corruption", they affirm categorically in the Government and the leadership of the PSOE, in line with the commitment expressed by Pedro Sánchez during the celebration of Constitution Day, before the proposal to reform the crime of embezzlement that this Friday is expected to be registered by Esquerra Republicana in Congress, as an amendment to the bill that will replace sedition with the crime of aggravated public disorder.
On behalf of the PSOE, the Minister of the Presidency and Relations with the Courts, Félix Bolaños, is negotiating with Esquerra the content of this amendment that will be registered tomorrow to perfectly define, from a legal point of view, the scope of this review of the crime of embezzlement, according to what socialist sources explain to La Vanguardia. The text, they warn, is undergoing modifications until its final drafting. As they always alert the Government, all legislative initiatives must be outlined very carefully, given the future resources of the right that they already foresee.
In the Moncloa, meanwhile, they remain rigorously silent, waiting for the exact and definitive content of the amendment on the review of the crime of embezzlement that Esquerra will register tomorrow to be revealed. In the leadership of the PSOE they also prescribe "prudence" until then, until the "news" that the aforementioned amendment is expected to incorporate are known, very aware of the caution and fears, if not the direct opposition, that they arouse among the ranks themselves. socialists a legislative reform that can question the fight against political corruption that they emphasize is their hallmark. And just five months from the next municipal and regional elections.
In the leadership of the PSOE, the planned replacement of the "obsolete" crime of sedition, for which the pro-independence leaders of the procés were convicted, has already been considered "amortized" by that of aggravated public disorder, despite the opposition shown by two Socialist regional presidents, Javier Lambán from Aragon and Emiliano García Page from Castilla-La Mancha, or the former Prime Minister Felipe González. But a reform also includes the crime of embezzlement, which was also charged against leaders of the independence process, has been rejected by the previous ones and keeps other socialist presidents and territorial leaders on alert, from Ximo Puig from Valencia to Juan Lobato from Madrid or the Castilian and Luis Tudanca from Leon. In some socialist federations they admit that they are holding their breath, waiting to know and analyze in detail the content of the embezzlement amendment that will be unveiled tomorrow.
In Ferraz they call for calm until then, but some of these socialist territorial presidents and leaders warn that the undesired consequences of the application by some judges of the law of only yes is yes, with a cascade of sentence reductions for sexual offenders , is not the best precedent to address now a reform of the crime of embezzlement that may also have perverse results, beyond the alleged "dejudicialization" of the political conflict in Catalonia.
