Both Junts and the PSOE –also Esquerra Republicana– expected a ruling that would endorse the Amnesty law in European justice, but sharing that goal does not bring the positions of the two political groups closer. From JxCat they emphasized this Friday that nothing changes in the political sphere, although within the socialist ranks they trusted that a favorable ruling and a possible return of the party leader, Carles Puigdemont, could help build bridges and grease again a relationship that has not flowed since last autumn. “This changes nothing,” said today the secretary general of JxCat, Jordi Turull, who made it clear that he has not spoken with the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and that they do not plan to do so.
As things stand, for Junts the relationship with the socialists is limited to courtesy in the parliamentary sphere. “Since they have not fulfilled so many things they had committed to, doing certain comedies makes no sense,” Turull said about the possibility of resuming frequent contact with the socialists.
In fact, in recent days Puigdemont’s circle has accused Sánchez’s Government of having deceived Junts’ leadership with the timing of the amnesty and the former president’s lawyer, Gonzalo Boye, considers that the Constitutional Court has not resolved the protection appeals filed a year ago for political interest. “Let’s see if we still have to thank them for fulfilling something that was agreed. The problem with the PSOE is all the things that were agreed and have not been fulfilled,” Turull said in statements to TV3 and Catalunya Ràdio, who also recalled that many commitments from the negotiation in Switzerland are still pending. “It is unheard of that they now tell us that we have to help them for something that is being fulfilled,” concluded the secretary general of JxCat, who also hopes that the amnesty will lift his disqualification penalty.
On the other hand, the post-convergent leader also lamented that the PSOE does not dare to make deeper reforms in the State when they have been in Government. “They do not have a project for Spain, they do not have it, because when they are in Moncloa they feel like tenants, not owners, and they do not want to tear down any load-bearing wall. They are not capable of saying, listen, let’s reform the judiciary,” complained Turull, who often recalls that in fact the renewal of the judicial leadership was agreed by the socialists with the PP.
In response to the statements of the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, on RNE, in which he encouraged Puigdemont to return immediately and let himself be arrested and imprisoned, knowing that the judicial rulings and the law are on his side, Turull accused him of “meanness and frivolity.” “I would show up in Spain today. It is a gesture of political leadership, there are things that are unsustainable and that must be faced once and for all. And let them arrest me,” Puente suggested, who conceded that the former president would be arrested by court order. “Better a colorful minute than a lifetime of cowardice,” added the socialist leader.
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In the judicial sphere, Turull pointed out that the ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union is not a “definitive” victory even though it is “resounding” because the Spanish courts still have to intervene. “It is not yet the last screen,” added the post-convergent leader.
In turn, Boye insisted on RAC1 that it is possible to resolve the appeals immediately and pointed out that although the Supreme Court has the capacity to delay the times, it cannot prevent the amnesty from being applied. “They can control the timing, but they cannot control the law,” said the lawyer about the Spanish judiciary. “The patient is dead, give him the detention certificate,” he insisted.
The lawyer of the JxCat leader reiterated this Friday that the Constitutional Court had the power to resolve the protection appeals a year ago. “They invented that they had to wait for the CJEU,” lamented Boye, who asked that next week in the plenary session of the Constitutional Court this matter be addressed.
On the other hand, Boye believes that the Supreme Court has little room not to apply the criminal oblivion. “The Supreme Court can continue to delay the times. But, what would be the interior of justice?” questioned the criminal lawyer. Faced with the possibility that the High Court raises new preliminary questions to the CJEU, Boye considers that there is no room because the request to raise preliminary questions was already rejected after the approval of the amnesty law. “The Supreme Court said there were no doubts about Union law when it was asked,” Boye pointed out. “A clarified act does not give rise to a new preliminary question. It would be a historic mistake by the Supreme Court,” he concluded.
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