Puigdemont calls for amnesty for Catalan independentists to support the new Spanish government

the catalan leader Carlos Puigdemont He presented on Tuesday the conditions of his political movement to negotiate his eventual support for the investiture of the new head of the government Spanishincluding an amnesty for the independentistas.

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At a conference in Brussels, puigdemont He mentioned among the conditions the “respect for the legitimacy of independence” catalan, “the complete and effective abandonment of the judicial route” against the independentistas and the creation of a “verification mechanism” of the fulfillment of the agreements.

The Catalan leader, fled to Belgium to evade Spanish justice since 2017 after the secession attempt that unleashed a complex political crisis in the country, he also claimed to set “The only limits are those defined by international agreements and treaties that refer to human rights (individual and collective) and fundamental freedoms”.

The elections held in Spain they left the party of puigdemont, together but Cataloniain the center of the political board, and your vote will tip the balance to one side or the other.

None of the main candidates –the socialist Pedro Sanchez and the conservative Alberto Núñez Feijóo— has sufficient numbers to become president of the government.

election winner, Feijóo took charge of the King Felipe VI to submit to an investiture debate in the Congress on September 26 and 27.

His chances, however, are slim, since not even if he added the support of the extreme right of vox and from other small willing formations, he would get the necessary number of deputies.

puigdemont He insisted this Tuesday that there are no negotiations underway to define who his movement will support, but he explained what the conditions are for negotiating that eventual vote.

“None of these preconditions is contrary to the Constitution and therefore to no European treaty, and they do not even require a long legislative process, are preconditions that must be met before the legal term expires to avoid new elections“, said.

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Promote a “historic pact”

In the opinion of the pro-independence leader and current MEP, “it does not seem that the candidate of the right [Feijóo] have enough support to be chosen (…) Nor does the current president have them”, Sanchez.

For this reason, he pointed out Spain “is faced with a dilemma”, which could be resolved by adopting a “historical pact”.

“It will not surprise anyone who says that today the conditions do not exist to reach that great agreement. (…) If there is a real will to undertake an agreement of this nature, these conditions should be created”said.

puigdemont held a long-delayed meeting in Brussels on Monday with Yolanda Diazleader of the left party Add and second vice president of the acting government of Sánchez.

The meeting was “fruitful”, as defined Add and together but Catalonia in a brief statement, where they claimed to be “agree to explore all democratic solutions to unblock the political conflict”.

In mid-August, the support of the Catalan separatists linked to puigdemont allowed to elect a socialist at the head of the Congress of Deputies, but the regionalist leader insisted that this accolade had no connection with the investiture of the new head of government, scheduled for the end of this month.

Sánchez said on Monday, in a speech delivered in Barcelonathat it was necessary to “continue advancing in the solution of the serious fracture” in Catalonia.

“Betting on dialogue and also harmony are the best solution to this crisis, a solution that is fully constitutional”, he expressed.

on your side, Feijóo questioned that it is puigdemont whoever has in their hands the letter that will define who will be the next head of the Spanish government, which he described as a “democratic anomaly”.

Source: Elcomercio

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