Josep Rull’s Reaction After Being Elected President of Parliament
Just 12 hours after being elected as the new president of the Parliament, Josep Rull stood in front of the microphones of RAC1 this Tuesday morning to give his second interview after the one given yesterday to TV3. Still with a hangover from the marathon day he experienced this Monday in the Catalan upper house, the former councilor and deputy of Junts per Catalunya has shown himself grateful for the “highest” honor that has been granted to him and has admitted that at ‘now the idea of the promised position is not made.
Rull has assured that his training internally raised the possibility of presiding over the chamber on Saturday afternoon, but that until Monday itself there was no agreement closed with the rest of the forces. “They told me that my name could generate consensus and that Junts would propose me no matter what,” he said.
Regarding the denials, the new president has acknowledged that he did not participate directly, but he did affirm that the choice of one candidate or another was not a matter of vetoes, referring to the possible refusal of the CUP to reinvest Anna Erra.
Reactions to the Amnesty Law and Other Issues
Regarding the publication this Tuesday of the Amnesty Law in the Official Gazette of the State (BOE), Rull indicated in the same interview that he will accept it in order to erase his background. “Those of us whose sentences have been extinguished still have criminal records. The Amnesty Law allows them to erase and this is not a minor thing”, he remarked.
The new president has also referred to the fact that the formalization of the regulation came two days after the European elections, pointing to a possible strategy of the PSOE to delay the application until the elections are held.
