Junts has estimated this Thursday between 150 and 200 people who it considers are now included in the amnesty law agreed between its party, the PSOE and ERC. From the formation they have assured that with the previous wording of the norm, which Junts opposed, these people, especially those linked to the Tsunami Democràtic and Voloh case were “available for a judge to investigate and accuse them of terrorism”.
«Now they can be calmer. They can rest assured that, from a regulatory and legal point of view, they will be covered. From here, the judges will do what they consider,” he adds. The intention of the negotiation, the aforementioned sources point out, was to cover “water leaks” that they believe the previous draft had and that no one would be left behind..
In fact, they claim that the former president of the Generalitat and Junts MEP, Carles Puigdemont, was the first to maintain that he would “never” return to Catalonia if there were people who helped and collaborated who were outside the application of the law. Beyond predicting that Puigdemont will be able to return to Catalonia in July, he has clarified that he and the rest of those affected will manage his possible return as they wish and will make their decisions.
Despite the anger that Junts’ “no” to the initial vote caused in the PSOE and ERC, they claim the changes achieved, thus denying that they have made “an aesthetic or superficial reform” to connect the amnesty with international law and disconnect it from the limits of the Spanish Penal Code, they specify.
In addition to defending the value of the recommendations of the Venice Commission report, he explained that the Junts legal team, headed by Gonzalo Boye and the former Junts deputy in Congress and jurist Josep Pagès, have been responsible for negotiating with Republicans. and socialists.
To clear up the negotiation, the general secretary of Junts, Jordi Turull, sent a message last Sunday to the general secretary of ERC, Marta Rovira, and they agreed to speak on Monday. “He never disagreed with the final objective,” highlight the Junts sources, who assure that they also contacted the Secretary of Organization of the PSOE, Santos Cerdán.which called on them to come to an agreement with the Republicans.
After that, the legal teams of Junts and ERC got in touch and achieved “in two days” a draft that was subsequently endorsed by the socialists, beyond small, non-substantial grammatical and vocabulary changes to the text.
