The Justice Commission Resumes its Sessions After Rejecting the Suspension
The Congressional Justice Commission has resumed its sessions after rejecting the request of the Popular Party (PP) to suspend the session to study the new amendments incorporated into the text of the amnesty law. The Commission’s Bureau has rejected the request, so the amendments will be debated and voted on this Thursday before the final approval of the standard next week.
The PP Accuses the Government of Attacking and Defending the Judges
The PP has threatened to break off the negotiations with the excuse of amnesty. The ‘popular’ leader Esteban González Pons warned: “We are not going to allow him to attack the judges with Junts with one hand and defend them with the PP with the other. The Government has to choose sides.”
The Civil Guard Suspends a Commander Involved in the ‘Koldo Case’
The Civil Guard has provisionally suspended the commander assigned to the Venezuelan Embassy who was arrested and released by the National Court within the framework of the investigation of the ‘Koldo case’. A disciplinary file has been opened against Commander Rubén Villalba and he has been suspended from duty as a precautionary measure.
The Mayor of Madrid Accuses the Government of Corruption
The mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, has accused the Government of Spain and President Pedro Sánchez of being “the X of corruption in Spain.” Almeida has assured that Sánchez is the president of “a corrupt Government” and the general secretary of a “corrupt party.”
The Amnesty Law will be voted on next Thursday
Next Thursday, March 14, the Plenary Session of Congress will vote – and, predictably, approve – the amnesty law. The plenary session will be monographic, and in it the bill agreed upon late this Wednesday by PSOE, ERC and Junts will be voted on.
Junts Defends the Amnesty Agreement
The spokesperson for Junts in Congress, Míriam Nogueras, has vindicated her party’s decision not to support the amnesty law proposal on January 30, because this has allowed it to be agreed with the PSOE “now like this” and ERC a “comprehensive, universal and immediately applicable” standard.
The Minister of Justice Defends the Agreement
The Minister of Justice, Félix Bolaños, has defended the agreement reached between the PSOE, Junts and ERC to unblock the amnesty law as good news that “puts an end to a decade of collective failure” and opens the way to a stage of “dialogue.” , to do politics within the institutions and the Constitution.”
Alberto Núñez Feijóo Charges Against the Government for the Amnesty Law
The leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has taken advantage of his intervention at the congress of the European People’s Party to charge against the Government of Pedro Sánchez for the pact of the amnesty law and the corruption of the ‘Koldo case’. Feijóo has expressed: “A growing majority of Spaniards see in the PP and the European institutions the guarantee to stop these nonsense, we cannot let them down.”
The Minister of the Presidency Appears to Explain the Agreement
The Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, has appeared to explain the agreement on the amnesty law. Bolaños has stated that it is “a pride to contribute to normalization” with a law that will not only benefit hundreds of people prosecuted, but “Catalonia and, therefore, all of Spain.”
