The Spanish government hopes to pass an amnesty law with “legal certainty” together with the Junts

After Junts’ decision to do not support the amnesty law In Congress, the Spanish government urged the Junts on Wednesday to reconsider its position and expressed confidence that the text will leave the House of Commons with full “legal certainty”. In any case, the council sees a small margin to make changes to what has already been agreed.

Several ministers of the Spanish government, including María José Montero, Félix Bolaños, Pilar Alegría and Óscar Puente, have emphasized in various interviews on radio and television their confidence that the Amnesty Act progress without this leading to an early end to the parliamentary term.

Bolaños, in Ser, has been blunt in this sense: “The legislative power is not decided by any group, but by the president, and will last three and a half years.” The Head of Justice, Presidency and Relations with the Courts has emphasized that the law was worked on for months during negotiations with Junts and other parties so that it was “flawless” and “impeccable” in terms of compliance with the law. the Constitution and European law. Regarding whether they will accept any changes to the text, Bolaños pointed out that “it must be worked on with the same rigor” as in previous months, adding: “I guarantee that when the text is approved, it will be blameless.”

The government spokesperson, Pilar AlegriaHowever, Catalunya Radio is more cautious about changes, emphasizing that the text of the organic bill was already “absolutely impeccable from the point of view of legal and constitutional security”, adding: “We are convinced that this is the document that must ultimately be approved.” However, Alegría also asked the Junts to “continue the dialogue” they have been conducting in recent months.

In the same vein, the First Vice President and Minister of Finance, Mary Jesus Monteroasked Junts in an interview on TVE to reconsider his position. Moreover, he noted that there is always “room to negotiate” and to include “new issues”, although he emphasized that the text brought to the plenary “had all the guarantees to be a constitutional text” and that the changes Junts wanted to introduce “they didn’t have that property”. “No amnesty text is not constitutional; the text the government promoted was. We want a text with legal certainty to emerge from Congress,” he said.

For his part, the Minister of Transport, Public Works and Water Management Oscar Puentehas denied to Telecinco that the legislative power is up in the air, although he has acknowledged that it is “very complex”, and has emphasized the need to implement an amnesty law that is “in accordance with the Constitution and solid” .

In statements to RAC1, the general secretary of JxCat, Jordi Turulhas warned the PSOE that failure to adopt a “comprehensive” amnesty law and implement it “immediately” would violate the Investiture Pact.

According to Turull, the investiture pact with the PSOE was intended to resolve “the political conflict” between Catalonia and Spain: “The basis was the amnesty law and that there were no people under treatment. If this foundation fails, the rest doesn’t matter. we don’t even have to arrive,” he said.

“There were no waterways, but they opened them with hammer blows and now we have to protect them,” Turull explained about the law passed yesterday and which, according to the Junts Secretary General, still has room for reinforcement. Commission.

In statements to TV3, the JxCat spokesperson in Congress said: Miriam Noguerashas pointed out that it should be a law that protects “against abuse by the Spanish judicial leadership” of the rules.

“We are all exposed to this arbitrariness of the Spanish judicial leadership and that is why we ask the government to exercise its authority in the face of these facts that are unacceptable,” he assured.