Ciudadanos considers that the investiture agreement signed between the PSOE and Junts is the starting point of the "blow up of the rule of law" in Spain and that the beneficiaries of the future amnesty law that supports it, those prosecuted for their participation in the Catalonia's independence process, constitute a "sovereignty caste of untouchables."
This is how the leader of Ciudadanos in the Parliament, Carlos Carrizosa, interpreted it this afternoon, for whom, in the first place, it is not an agreement "with Catalonia", as, from his point of view, emerges from the "story false and opportunistic" that is explained in the document signed by PSOE and Junts, but rather a temporary pact that pursues the interest of specific people.
"It is not an agreement with Catalonia nor in the name of Catalonia, but of Junts, whose anagram appears in the pact, in its own interest. It is not in our name or in that of all Catalans, that we do not recognize ourselves in the story that appears reflected in the agreement," argued Carrizosa, for whom "Pedro Sánchez has done more to destabilize Spanish democracy than separatism in all these years."
For the leader of Ciudadanos in Catalonia, the PSOE and the PSC have "betrayed their voters" after winning the general and regional elections by not applying their own program but that of "a fugitive from justice like Carles Puigdemont", who is pursuing "break Spain" and that "represents hatred of everything Spanish."
"Its beneficiaries will be a caste of untouchable separatists who embarked on the coup d'état in 2017," Carrizosa has exclaimed against an amnesty that, in his opinion, "breaks the principle of equality", since it grants a "patent of marque" to "commit crimes and embezzle" when these crimes are "protected by the constitution of a new republic" promoted by "an elite" like the one that, from his point of view, led the process.
And if, based on this analysis, the beneficiaries are the independence leaders, for Carrizosa, the harmed are "Spanish democracy and constitutionalist Catalans, as well as the rest of Spaniards who abide by the Constitution", for which he has made a call to the Catalans "so that they do not forget what is happening" and mobilize, if necessary, at the polls, "without the need to cause riots" like those that have occurred in recent days in Madrid. “In 2017 we stopped the coup with a tough, firm and serene opposition; In 2023 we will do it again,” he promised.
"This is how democracies die, at the moment when the balances of power do not work and the rulers ignore the institutions," continued Carrizosa, for whom the investiture pact means "destroying" one of the three pillars of the State of right such as the judicial power, which, in his opinion, is "preterred, neglected and attacked" from the moment it is necessary for "a fugitive from justice" to stamp his signature on it.
In this sense, Carrizosa, in line with the general secretary of his party, MEP Adrián Vázquez, who has also held a press conference from Brussels to ask the European Union to act as the "last containment dam", has congratulated himself that the Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders, "at the request of Ciudadanos", as he stressed, has shown his concern about the amnesty.
"We experienced what we experienced in Poland a few years ago and we already know how Poland ended and its constant undermining of the separation of powers and the rule of law," denounced Vázquez, who chairs the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament and who has announced that will ask that the next plenary session debate "the drift of the rule of law in Spain."
