When the Congress of Deputies approved the Amnesty law in May 2024, we wrote, with candid innocence in this same section, that history would forget the noise generated by the entire debate of this law and that the common sense that the normalization of political life in Catalonia was convenient for everyone would prevail. However, here we are, more than two years later, and not only has the law not yet been applied, but the opposition has used it to undermine the socialist Government whenever it had the chance.
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At the same time, various judges have filed appeals and even preliminary rulings to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) that have delayed its application. And Carles Puigdemont remains in Brussels, without his outstanding arrest warrants having been annulled, and Oriol Junqueras remains disqualified, among others affected by the Supreme Court ruling.
Yesterday’s decision by the CJEU is a victory for the Government and a defeat for all those – judges, politicians, and media – who have been repeating for two years that the law was a tailor-made suit to facilitate Pedro Sánchez’s investiture. The ruling denies the thesis of an “auto-amnesty” and supports that the law aimed to “reduce institutional and political tensions, as well as facilitate a scenario of reconciliation.” It also makes clear that the law does not oppose EU law, does not conflict with its financial interests, nor is it contrary to its terrorism directive.
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It is a landslide victory for the Government’s theses and for those of us who have defended the need for pardons and an amnesty to turn the page – as the PP is now doing – without ceasing to criticize the erratic and negative policy applied by the procés leaders that has clearly harmed Catalonia.
The law will not be applied yet because the Supreme Court still maintains its theses and we will have to wait for the Constitutional Court to resolve the appeals. But the path is already clear. Sooner
or later, there will be no more obstacles that can be placed and the Amnesty law will be able to be applied. All inside, as Enric Juliana very aptly points out.
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