"Step by step", they warn Moncloa about the ongoing negotiations with Junts and ERC, including an amnesty for those charged in the process, so as not to precipitate events or suffer any stumbles that could damage the already complicated road to the re-election of Pedro Sánchez.
Sánchez himself acknowledged this yesterday, when he arrived at the summit of the European Political Community held in Granada and the press asked him if there would be amnesty or not. "We are negotiating, and when we have a concrete position on this issue, after meeting with all the parliamentary groups, we will set the position of the PSOE", he said.
"Negotiations are complex", he acknowledged. This reality will possibly delay the time of the investiture, no matter how much haste it tries to impose on the process. It is foreseeable that the investiture debate cannot be held, if nothing goes wrong, at least until the end of October or the beginning of November.
"We lost five weeks with an investiture that even the candidate himself knew would be a failure", alleged Sánchez, referring to the failed attempt by Alberto Núñez Feijóo. "And now Spanish society, and I am the first, want a government with full functions, and that we are not in functions, as we have been since the elections of July 23", he affirmed. "There is an urgency to have a government with full functions", he insisted.
But he also acknowledged that the process will not be as quick as he would like. "The negotiations are complex, because there is a parliamentary arch with different interests", he admitted about the difficulty of reaching an agreement. "Together we all have to find the meeting space to start this legislature and be able to form a parliamentary majority, which not only gives us an investiture, but also the legislature", he confided.
"My goal is that during these next four years we continue to advance for the social majority of our country, in rights, freedoms and progress", remarked Sánchez.
And he also advocated for "continuing to cultivate and foster the reunion and coexistence between the peoples of Spain, within the framework of the Constitution". "Dialogue is the method, the goal is progress and coexistence, and the framework is the Constitution. This is where we are moving", reiterated the leader of the PSOE.
As for whether there will be amnesty or not, Sánchez acknowledged that it is the million dollar question, and admitted that he never even utters that word, as he again avoided doing yesterday. But he insisted that it is not yet time to set a position, until the negotiations with Catalan independence move forward. "We are negotiating with different parliamentary groups", he alleged.
Sánchez, however, once again pointed out the beneficial effects that, in his opinion, had the pardons to the leaders of the imprisoned process, approved in the previous legislature. "When the Government approved the pardons, I had confidence that they would contribute to the stability and normalization of politics in Catalonia. And today I am certain that it was a good decision, and that it therefore obeyed the general interest", he argued.
And for this general interest, he defended, not only the Executive but also all the parliamentary forces must look after it.
