Sumar, the party led by the second vice president of the acting Government, Yolanda Díaz, presented this Tuesday in Barcelona an amnesty proposal for those involved in the process that includes the members of the Defense Committees for the Republic (CDR) investigated by terrorism and those of Tsunami Democràtic, the organization that flooded Catalonia with acts of vandalism to protest against the Supreme Court’s ruling against the independence leaders who promoted 1-O.
It is that of Adding a proposal that covers from January 1, 2013 until the constitution of the Cortes that took place last August and that has a massive nature, since the experts of the organization chaired by Díaz – present in Barcelona, but mute – defend amnesty from the main leaders of the process, starting with Carles Puigdemont and the rest of the members of the Government that organized the 1-O, to the 700 mayors investigated for supporting it, the 700 people criminally charged in separatist protests, those investigated by the Court of Accounts or in the Volhov operation, of economic support for the secessionist cause and which revealed links between Puigdemont’s entourage and the Kremlin.
“The actions of the members of the Security Forces and Corps aimed at preventing the holding of the referendum will also be amnestied,” includes the opinion of the wise men of Sumar, in which, yes, it is specified that the agents likely to be accused of “torture or other crimes against moral integrity” will be excluded from the measure of grace.
The law would also exclude potential beneficiaries, such as the former president of the Generalitat, Jordi Pujol, and the former president of the Parliament, Laura Borràs, convicted of corruption and abandoned by most of the separatism, which agrees on the impossibility of exonerating her.
Sumar defines the approval of the amnesty as “a second decriminalization phase” after the granting of pardons and the suppression of the crime of sedition and recognizes that “its purpose is to resolve from a political point of view the existing conflict between Catalonia and the Spanish State “, a statement that contradicts the secessionist narrative that defends that the amnesty “is not an end point”, but rather the mechanism that will “set the counter to zero” to begin negotiating a referendum agreed with the State and whose result is binding.
Sumar says to act in the face of “disproportionate” judicial decisions. “In a democracy the judges do not rule, the citizens rule,” defended Jaume Asens, the interlocutor between the second vice president of the Government and Puigdemont.
That Sumar flaunted his amnesty proposal was not well received by the Government. The advisor to the Presidency of the Catalan Executive, Laura Vilagrà, considered that a public presentation “is not the best way to contribute to the negotiation.” The ERC leader appealed to “discretion” and stressed that the key to unraveling the investiture lies in the PSOE and not in its government partner. “It is the PSOE that we have to drag along,” said Pere Aragonès’ right-hand man to insist that ERC’s strategy involves negotiating with the socialists, taking advantage of the fluid relationship that both forces share since the last legislature. “The candidate is Pedro Sánchez, not Yolanda Díaz,” Republican sources abound to this newspaper.
Toni Comín, the former counselor of the Generalitat who accompanies Carles Puigdemont in his escape and who is personally addressing the negotiations with Sumar to agree on the exact conditions of the measure of grace, does not share the assessments of the Government and ERC. The Junts leader maintained that the proposal of Yolanda Díaz’s party “is good” and will serve to “open a path that sooner or later the PSOE must also end up traveling.” Comín is confident, therefore, that the public pressure exerted by Sumar will end up pushing the socialists to accept an article that is more generous with the demands of the pro-independence parties than he would like.
The articles of the law, already leaked by Sumar last week, echo the proposal that ERC, Junts and the CUP brought to Congress in 2021 to try to annul the penalties of the process. Proposal that did not even pass the Board’s processing and was shot down by the PSOE, the PP and Vox.
One of the main obstacles, however, is that the independentists claim that the amnesty law must “guarantee the non-repetition of judicial or administrative actions” that could “pursue”, in the future, the new actions of the independence movement to move towards self-determination. .