After the massive demonstration against the amnesty held on October 8 in Barcelona, the same day as the historic march for the unity of Spain that toured the Catalan capital in 2017, the Catalan Civil Society (SCC) has not stopped reiterating its resounding rejection of a law that allows the criminal oblivion of allegedly criminal acts related to the independence process that are in court or have already been tried.
With this law already in the Congress register, the constitutional entity does not consider the battle lost and this Monday it issued a statement to demand that the PP deputies, "from generosity", allow through abstention that the PSOE does not need the votes of Junts and ERC, which for SCC represent "nationalist blackmail", in the investiture of Pedro Sánchez.
Likewise, the board of directors of this civic-cultural association chaired by Elda Mata urges the PSOE to give freedom to its deputies and that they can "vote in conscience" on issues that SCC believes are "transcendental" and that are taken, as the president argued of the Government when it spoke for the first time of an amnesty, "in the name of Spain".
"At a time of extraordinary gravity for our social and democratic State of law, from the Catalan Civil Society we appeal to the conscience of each and every one of the deputies of the Lower House to vote against pacts that are lethal for the State of law and the principle of separation of powers," the statement explains.
For SCC, the approval of a law like the one that has reached Congress today would mean the "liquidation" of a basic principle of the 1978 Constitution such as the equality of all Spaniards, but, in addition, the constitutional entity predicts that the pact of investiture with ERC and Junts, which includes other "cessions" such as "legal coverage for lawfare", according to the complaint, will end with the negotiation of a referendum in Catalonia that will call into question national sovereignty itself.
"Amnesty to the Catalan secessionists for the 2017 insurrection is a blow to democracy, to respectful Spaniards loyal to the institutions, to the judges, prosecutors, agents of the State security forces and bodies and to all the public servants who contributed to the maintenance of constitutional order," says SCC.
In the event that neither of the two options proposed by SCC - the abstention of the PP, ruled out by its president, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, or the freedom to vote for PSOE parliamentarians - does not occur, as is foreseeable, the entity demands a new electoral call: "The deputies must know that we have not voted for them to liquidate the spirit of the transition, the regime of '78, through the back door."
"The constant concessions to nationalism over the last 45 years in exchange for achieving or maintaining power have brought us here. Each concession to supremacist secessionism has been eroding the strength of our system," continues the SCC statement, which it calls "historical error" the policies of "contentment" with nationalism that both the PSOE and the PP have developed throughout the democratic period that began after the Franco dictatorship.
"We encourage your honors to prevent the humiliation of Spain and to defend the dignity of our democracy. You cannot allow, in conscience, a frontal attack on judicial independence and the separation of powers, the basis of our social and democratic State of law. You We invite you to join a transversal cry without ideological limitations: Not in my name!", SCC concludes in its statement.
