Pressure to approve the text
Jaume Asens, negotiator for Sumar and future candidate for the European elections, has expressed his opinion on a possible new text of the amnesty law that could be agreed between the PSOE and Junts per Catalunya. According to Asens, this new text would make the defendants of Democratic Tsunami, who have been accused of terrorism by the organizers of the protests against the judgment of the trial, more protected than before. Asens has stated that the pact between the two parties is imminent and that the deadline for approving an opinion in the Congressional Justice Commission ends next March 7, so the two parties must agree on the final draft and the amendments of the parties.
Rush for a quick amnesty
Asens has urged an amnesty to be approved as quickly as possible so that those retaliated against who must be imprisoned can benefit as soon as possible. As an example, he mentioned the case of Dani Gallardo, a young anarchist from Madrid who has been sentenced to 4 years in prison for public disorder and an attack on officers of the authority in a protest against the sentence of the trial. Asens has stated that the PSOE will not vote against Junts’ amendments to the amnesty and that the pact between the two parties is a matter of hours or days.
More protected defendants
Asens has not disclosed the content of the possible agreement, but has affirmed that the amnesty law will benefit the people prosecuted by Democratic Tsunami and that their cases will be more protected. According to Asens, this new text will further protect the cases of the defendants. Despite this, Asens has celebrated the report of the Venice Commission, which has put things in their place and corrected the Spanish judicial leadership and the Popular Party.
President Puigdemont and a new stage
President Puigdemont has already spoken about a possible amnesty law during his intervention at the constitution of the Territorial Assembly of the Council of the Republic at the Torre del Bisbe in Elna. Puigdemont has urged us to open a new stage to move from resistance to the proposal and to confrontation, and he has done so with the morale of victory and overcoming the disunity that has harmed the process. However, Puigdemont has warned that the approval of the amnesty law will not end the repression.
