Spain: PSOE and Catalan independence activists reach agreement and facilitate Sánchez’s investiture

Leaders of PSOE and the Catalan independentists of JxCat closed in Brussels an agreement on a future amnesty for people who participated in the independence process in Catalonia in 2017, which opens the door to a new investiture of the socialist Pedro Sanches at the head of the Government, according to negotiating sources.

He Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) It is JxCat They had been negotiating for days Brussels the details of this amnesty project, the last obstacle to the socialists’ agreement with left-wing and nationalist forces with a view to Sánchez being sworn in again as head of the Executive this month.

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The former president of Generalitat Carles Puigdemont will appear in the media this Thursday to give details of the negotiation of the agreement, which according to the sources consulted includes some cases of “legal war”(judicialization of politics) which implies, as denounced by the PuigdemontThe “strategic use of laws to harm dissidents”.

Puigdemont He was president of the region of Catalonia in 2017, during a process promoted by nationalist forces that included an independence-type consultation with citizens and that was declared illegal by the Spanish courts.

The former Catalan president and some of his collaborators escaped Spain and avoided being tried while other prosecutors in this case were taken to court and served prison sentences, albeit with They were later forgiven.

The seats of JxCat They are decisive for the socialist leader to renew his mandate after reaching an agreement with his current government partner, a left-wing coalition now called To addas well as other Catalan and Basque nationalist forces.

This amnesty project is heavily criticized by conservatives People’s Party (PP), which won the July 23 elections, but whose leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóohe didn’t have enough votes to be president when he went to his inauguration in Congressin October.

The far right also rejects it. Voxwhose leaders supported the protest demonstrations in front of the headquarters of PSOE that, in the case of Madridrecorded incidents in recent days, with police intervention.

Source: Elcomercio

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