The European Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders, has requested "detailed" information from the acting Government about the amnesty law that the PSOE and Junts are negotiating to enable the investiture of Pedro Sánchez and about which he considers that there are "serious concerns."
"I would appreciate it if you could provide me with more detailed information, in particular about the personal, material and temporal scope of this planned law," Reynders wrote in a letter addressed to the acting ministers of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, and of Justice, Pilar Llop.
Last week, Reynders received the manifesto that more than 300 Spanish jurists, professors and liberal professionals sent to Congress and the Senate expressing their rejection of an amnesty law in a "democratic" Spain that guarantees the rights and freedoms of all its citizens. through the Citizens pro Europe collective.
"On behalf of Citizens pro Europe, I send you a statement against the amnesty for pro-independence politicians convicted of crimes of sedition and embezzlement in the most serious attack on the Spanish constitutional system since 1981," the text states, equating the current moment with the frustrated attempt to coup d'état in the midst of transition.
The group asks the main European authority to make a clear statement on the consequences that the approval of this law would have throughout Europe, which could leave crimes related to the process, including terrorism, unpunished.
The manifesto points out that this amnesty would be contrary to one of the essential pillars of the European Union, the Rule of Law, as the president of the European Commission already warned the president of Romania in 2019 and recalls that President Pedro Sánchez himself, as well as some members of his cabinet, had stressed on several occasions during the last term the unconstitutional nature of the amnesty.
Reynders already spoke out a month ago to the negotiations of PSOE, ERC and Junts about the investiture of the future Government of Spain, pointing out that "there are some limits" to an amnesty law even if it is a "national competence."
