“Everything will be known,” Carles Puigdemont has warned about the conversations held last summer between the Popular Party and Junts per Catalunya. And in the PSOE they have attributed to this announcement the surprising and radical turn in Alberto Núñez Feijóo's speech, which they highlight now opens the door to a pardon for the former president of the Generalitat, calling into question whether the judicial investigation can prove that he was involved in acts of terrorism, and even admits that for 24 hours he was analyzing the relevance of an Amnesty law for those accused of the process. That is, all the elements on which the leader of the PP has based his forceful opposition strategy against Pedro Sánchez, before, during and after his new investiture as President of the Government. Quite a political earthquake that also occurs in the final stretch of the electoral campaign in Galicia, before the appointment with the polls next Sunday.
In the Government and in the leadership of the PSOE they have jumped in unison, this Sunday, to denounce "the big lie" that they have attributed to Feijóo, given his turn in assuming the possibility of pardons as an alternative to amnesty or defending a “reconciliation plan” for Catalonia, after attacking for months the “reunion agenda” that Pedro Sánchez has promoted since he arrived at Moncloa in 2018. The head of the Executive himself has insisted, in an interview published today in La Voz de Galicia , in what he has been repeating for a long time: “If Feijóo did not depend on Vox, he would have approved the amnesty.”
“The PP and Feijóo tell us that their apocalyptic opposition to the amnesty is just an interpretation, that they know that there was no terrorism and they want reconciliation and pardons,” warned the Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Courts, the socialist Félix Bolaños. “Will they apologize for the atrocities they have said to us?” he demanded. Bolaños himself, last Friday, had already forcefully criticized Feijóo's "double standards." “If Junts had supported Feijóo's investiture, and Feijóo were president, today the Popular Party would be defending an Amnesty law.” The minister has already called on the PP leader to speak: “What did Feijóo offer Junts in the negotiations he had with them during the summer, and what did he offer them specifically regarding their legal cases?”
At Moncloa and Ferraz they have highlighted that the PP and Feijóo himself have been calling for months for demonstrations in the streets, “full of insults” against Sánchez, the Government and the PSOE, first for the pardons for the independence leaders and now for the law of Amnesty. “The PP only knows how to move in the mud and lies and, after so many attacks and reproaches, the truth comes to light,” denounced the Executive spokesperson, Pilar Alegría. “Feijóo weighed the amnesty and now proposes a pardon for Puigdemont,” she said. “At this rate, next week he will demonstrate against himself,” Alegría said ironically about the PP leader.
A flood of ministers and socialist leaders are denouncing this Sunday, thus, what they consider “Feijóo's big lie.” And former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, this Sunday during a rally of the Galician electoral campaign in Ferrol, emphasized that the new positions now assumed by Feijóo represent “the end of an infamy.” “The end of a great infamy that we have experienced during these three months carried out by the right and Feijóo's PP, generating tension, attacking the Government, saying that Spain, the Constitution, the rule of law is broken, and it turns out that everything was a great hypocrisy, a big lie,” the former president stressed.
