Castilla-La Mancha is the autonomous community with the highest percentage of socialist militants opposed to the application of an amnesty to those prosecuted for the illegal independence referendum in Catalonia. 19.8% of the participants in the internal consultation carried out by the party to endorse its post-electoral pacts have said no to this measure of grace in a territory governed by Emiliano García-Page, the baron who has most forcefully opposed the assignments demanded by Junts and ERC in exchange for their support for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez.
They are followed in the ranking by the highest volume of affiliates who do not support this judicial relief for those involved in 1-O Asturias and Aragón, with 17% and 16% rejection by their bases. They complete the quintet of regions where a higher proportion of noes against Galicia (14.7%), Extremadura (13.5%) and Cantabria (13.4) have been registered.
After the scrutiny of the votes of the militancy, 87.13% of the citizens with a socialist card who have responded to the consultation – 63.4% of the total census of 172,600 members – have, however, endorsed the future amnesty law law. The regions where the greatest support has been registered have been the Valencian Community (92.7%), the Canary Islands (91%) and the Basque Country (90.1%).
In Catalonia, on the other hand, both support and participation have been lower than the national average: in the community most affected by the process, 85.2% of the 7,909 PSC militants who responded to the consultation voted yes – 61 .6% of the census – and 12.2% against, slightly above the average of 11.9% in Spain as a whole.
The Secretary of Organization, Santos Cerdán, indicated this Sunday in statements sent to the media that “PSOE militants throughout Spain are with Pedro Sánchez.” “We leaders only have to act with loyalty to what our bases ask of us (…). It is the mandate that came from the polls on July 23 and the formula to achieve it has been ratified by the vast majority,” he said. added the number three of the party and sent by Ferraz for the photo in Brussels with Carles Puigdemont prior to an investiture agreement with Junts that has not yet been closed.