In politics, it is essential to win the battle of the narrative. Either way, with advantageous explanations or irrefutable arguments. The drama is that the truth does not always manage to prevail, hidden under the interests of the parties. But, at least, it would be necessary to demand that the story be well constructed.
We have been talking about the issue of amnesty for weeks, but no one has elaborated the story of why it should be granted. The argument that the pro-independence parties are demanding it in order to vote for Pedro Sánchez is not valid, even if it is true. The truth is under the cobblestones, as the rebels of May 68 said of the beach.
Yesterday, Sumar presented a legal opinion on the amnesty, which the leaders of the formation wanted to differentiate from the amnesty proposal. It's what academic documents have: if you don't like them, you can write others. About twenty experts endorsed an opinion from the last ten years, which would allow 1,400 people to be amnestied and 13 cases to be closed, despite accepting that it is a maximum proposal.
One of the editors is former Constitutional Court lawyer Joaquín Urías, who agreed to TV3's Tot és mou that the story is missing, arguing that this is one of the points on which pro-independence and socialist parties have not yet agreed, since the former want to delegitimize the judiciary, because according to them there was no crime on 1-O, and the latter flatly deny it, accepting only that the measure is based on strengthening coexistence.
It will not be easy to agree on a story that does not end up stalling the amnesty law in negotiations or in the courts. Independence ran over the Statute and the Constitution at the time, and problems of coexistence do not seem to exist in Catalonia at this time. By the way, if the amnesty recognized that he did not commit a crime, it would give legitimacy to repeat the invitation.
It will be difficult to sustain a plausible account. In the PSOE they are inclined to affirm that the leaders of the process were well condemned, but there are reasons to turn the page. The problem is knowing which ones. They seem to be studying it.
