The deputy spokesperson for ERC in Congress, Teresa Jordà, denies that they have given up holding a referendum agreed in CataloniaOn the contrary, he believes that with the Amnesty Law, agreed with PSOE and Junts and approved this Thursday in the Justice Commission of Congress, you are “in a position” to achieve it.
According to Jordan, The amnesty “puts people on equal terms” and marks the beginning of the second phase for the resolution of the “political conflict” in Catalonia. «We want to agree with the Spanish State, this phase continues with more strength and we have not given up anything at all“He warned during an interview on the ‘Parliament’ program on RNE.
In his opinion, with the agreed norm they are “in conditions” to carry it out and he also remembers that one of the agreements signed with the socialists for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez was “continue with the negotiating table.”
The law was already good two months ago
During the interview, the independence spokesperson assured that for its formation the law, which was rejected by Junts at the end of January, I already “had all the guarantees”. “That was a good law and now it is obviously also a good law,” she stressed.
Now, two months later, those of Carles Puigdemont, have defended their vote against by ensuring that in this way they have achieved a “comprehensive” standard with “immediate application.” When asked about this statement, Jordà recalled that the norm, once approved in the plenary session that will be held next Thursday, will have to go to the Senatewhere the ‘popular’ have an absolute majority.
“They are going to make a veto and it will return to Congress, and out there it is full of institutions and people and a judicial power that we know perfectly and that what they want is to blow up this law,” therefore, according to Jordà “there is a lot of work left«.
In his opinion, “there is always” a “risk” with judges and the text approved in the Commission “is not at all more robust.” The judges “have not stopped inventing anything, any crime to complicate our lives more,” he lamented.
Questioned about the possible return of the Junts leader, Carles Puigdemont, the ERC spokesperson did not want to venture to make calculations about when he will return. «What I can guarantee is that it will be extremely easier for them to come back with this law“, he advanced, “where they should never have left” – also including the general secretary of ERC, Marta Rovira, also on the run from justice, and the activist and deputy Rubén Wagensberg -.
Bet on joint work in Catalonia
On the other hand, Jordà has spoken out about the relationship between your training and Junts facing possible negotiations during the legislature. In his opinion, when Catalonia is the shared objective, “there can always be different perspectives” to achieve that objective.
Of course, he wanted to make it clear that It was his formation that “alone” got the PSOE to sit at a negotiating table to talk about the political conflict existing in Catalonia and that for “the first time in history”, the central Executive recognized that a conflict existed. “We achieve things by negotiating alone,” he remarked.
«Junts has now entered into what we have been doing for a long time“He assured, and although they want the same thing but with ‘nuances’, he welcomes Puigdemont’s formation and believes that ‘the normal thing would be to work together.’
Finally, they asked him about the position of his training regarding the approval of the General Budgets. Jordà herself assured the press this week that they were open to giving the accounts a “green light”, although their priority was the Catalan Budgets. Therefore, she has advanced that “they are not going to threaten” with an amendment to the entirety as feared by the Minister of Finance, Maria Jesús Montero.
