Alfonso Guerra warns that the amnesty "collides" with the King's speech on October 3

The former vice president of the government Alfonso Guerra continues with his particular crusade against the amnesty requested by the Catalan independentists to invest Pedro Sánchez and this Thursday he warned of the "moral problem" that could arise for King Felipe if a law in this regard were approved.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
20 September 2023 Wednesday 16:34
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Alfonso Guerra warns that the amnesty "collides" with the King's speech on October 3

The former vice president of the government Alfonso Guerra continues with his particular crusade against the amnesty requested by the Catalan independentists to invest Pedro Sánchez and this Thursday he warned of the "moral problem" that could arise for King Felipe if a law in this regard were approved. since the head of state should sign it, which, in his opinion, "collides" with his speech on October 3, 2017, two days after the independence referendum illegalized by the Constitutional Court, in which Felipe VI endorsed the response from the powers of the State to the process.

"If Felipe VI has to sign the amnesty, he would have to remember his 3-0 speech," Guerra warned during an interview on Antena 3, in which he added that the text of that eventual law "would be exactly contrary to the speech that fortunately made it 3-0", a speech that, in his opinion, Mariano Rajoy should have made but did not. "The amnesty and that speech collide," insisted the former socialist leader, who sees in the amnesty "a very serious mistake that will be paid dearly."

However, Guerra believes that there will not be new elections because he considers that "everything that Puigdemont asks for is accepted" and alluded to the request made by Junts regarding the debt that they estimate that the State has with Catalonia of 400,000 million euros.

The former socialist president has also criticized the reform of the Congressional regulations that the Chamber definitively approved this Thursday so that co-official languages ​​can be used in all parliamentary activity. "It seems like a strange thing to me," said Guerra, who has criticized the fact that it is done "so that they can give you some votes and not because of convictions."

Guerra has regretted that the two major parties, PSOE and PP, do not even speak to renew the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) and has called on them to do so so as not to depend on the nationalist parties. In this sense, he has raised the possibility of reforming the electoral law to reduce the weight of these parties by raising the necessary vote threshold or giving a bonus of seats to the winner of the elections, while at the same time he has expressed regret for not having done so already in the constituent stage. "We were very naive," he justified.