The negotiation of the PSOE with the Catalan independentists for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez, seeking “formulas” about the amnesty and its hypothetical constitutional fit, is wearing down the socialists in that there are daily demonstrations and questions about this matter, in which reigns an absolute secrecy, at the same time as discomfort.
Emiliano García-Page, president of Castilla-La Mancha and the only socialist with an absolute majority, has expressed his rejection and anger not only with opening the door to “formulas” on amnesty, but with dialogue and concessions to the secessionists. In this sense, this Wednesday, from Albacete, he sent a clear message to Pedro Sánchez and the Government, as a reminder.
“Not two months have passed since the general elections. Two months have not passed since a general election in which the PSOE and the entire Government went with the approach that the amnesty did not fit in the Constitution. Consequently, the voters “What we proposed to him on July 23 was that the amnesty did not fit into the Constitution,” said the socialist baron who came out stronger after the regional elections.
And he insisted: “For me this will have to be explained or clarified if someone wants to make a change in approach or idea. Because the reality is that from the President of the Government to the entire government as a whole, all the “Ministers, they have had enough of saying that it did not fit in the Constitution and it was the response that was constantly given to ERC. Therefore, for what did not fit in the Constitution to fit in from one day to the next, this is enormously serious from the start.” .
His analysis of the situation is that if there is a negotiation it is because there is a change, and if there is a rectification of the approaches that would mean undermining, from the Executive itself, the principle of equality between Spaniards: “The last thing I have heard from the President of the Government to talk about amnesty has been that it did not fit in the Constitution. I have not yet heard anything else, and I would wait to hear him. The Socialist Party would have many options to rise, as long as we did not foster any ambiguity regarding our constitutional vocation and, logically, of equality between all Spaniards”.
Page starts from a clear position, which he has made clear on more than one occasion: Puigdemont and the leaders involved in the process can be listened to, but when “they have first recognized the constitutional path, they ratify the constitutional commitment even if they want to change the Constitution or they don’t like it and, in any case, an evident commitment not to go back to old ways.” Some premises that he, he understands, do not exist with the negotiation on the amnesty.
Similarly, also asked about the statements of former president José María Aznar, which have since continued with the rally that the PP will lead against the Government next weekend, he has advocated overcoming that debate and that “somewhat civil war” language. “, stating that “solutions will never come from the extremes.” Aznar called for citizen mobilization and La Moncloa described him as a “coup plotter.”
And García-Page has been convinced that the solutions, far from coming from extreme positions, “have to come from more considered, more moderate solutions.” “I think that this is the space in which some of us are going to stubbornly insist that it not be completely lost in Spain, because otherwise we are condemned to one half permanently opposing the other half. This is not a debate, it is not even a debate sometimes between left and right, as one wants to propose.
