Junts is impatient to the judicial rearma to move the Puigdemont’s amnesty | News from Catalonia

Carles Puigdemont says that his love for sport does not go beyond being a spectator who follows the football matches of Girona. In the Phase of the Champions League this season, the Catalan team He played in Eindhoven, fell thrashed 4-0and a group of fans who had traveled by road to the Netherlands decided that, on the way back, it would be a good idea to visit the Expresident In Waterloo (Belgium). One of those followers in the podcast revealed it Montilivingwhere he said that they formed a delegation of nine people and that it was almost midnight when they played the door of the house of Puigdemont, the only one in the municipality that looks like a “steley” on the facade.

The former Catalan president himself opened the « very confident » door by warning that they were football followers and told them that « what a beating » the team had taken. The anecdote exemplifies the situation in which Puigdemont is found in Belgium, isolated and discharged from personal security. A circumstance that serves Junts per Catalunya to insist that in Waterloo the amnesty has passed. The Rearme of the Supreme Court To block the Puigdemont judicial folder, it has meant the confirmation of a prediction for Junts, but the party warns that the government does not gestures to propitiate a political rehabilitation of the Expresident.

« He is prepared to return tomorrow and to stay two more years in Belgium, » says a person from Puigdemont’s environment, when he wonders how the Catalan former president digests the possibility that the Supreme Court can raise the amnesty to the Court of Justice of the European Union, a procedure that would delay the resolution of the case and the possible return to Catalonia. Another thing is how it manages juts the delay in the return. « I don’t know why you must gather oxygen to the government, if what was not agreed, » says a high position of the party. The party has seven seats in Congress and His support is key to decanting the balance of majorities in favor of Pedro Sánchez. A factor that the party tries to squeeze for their own benefit, with the permanent threat of dropping the government. « Elections may not come badly, » says the same source of training. In Junts, the possibility that one step through the polls could lock the PP alliance with Vox, but also the idea that ERC would collapse and that that would revert in an independence vote transfer.

In the campaign for the Catalan elections last year, Puigdemont announced that He dismantled his house in Belgium to temporarily installed in southern Franceas a previous step to his return to Catalonia. The return occurred on August 8, but It was a fleeting irruption in the center of Barcelonabefore escaping again to Belgium. « He was knowing that he was going to jail, how many would have done that? » Manifest a source close to Puigdemont, to try to highlight the alleged mood strength of the mood Expresident. « It’s fine, it’s calm, » he insists. « From the first day he has assumed that he can stay in Belgium all his life, » abounds another interlocutor, to strengthen the thesis that Puigdemont detaches his personal situation from Junts’ political strategy. However, from the formation the government is reproached that it does not do enough to speed up the return. Several charges of the party have thrown Pedro Sánchez, and also Salvador Illa, who avoid meeting with Puigdemont, a rejection that does not help project the image of a political rehabilitation. Junts also criticizes that no gestures have been made to seek an official escort to the Expresident. « There is an approved amnesty law, and it has not been wanted to apply or politically, » Josep Rius, a spokesman for the party, repeated this week.

Since the beginning of the year, party charges and people who have a fluid treatment with Puigdemont have given wings to the idea that, before summer, the Expresident I could return to Catalonia, this time to stay, armored by the ruling of the Constitutional Court. « That I know summer has not begun, » says one of those people. In the judicial soap opera appears the Supreme, which this week has confirmed its decision not to apply the amnesty to the former Catalan president; the Constitutional Court, which according to its president Cándido Conde-Pumps will emit before summer His first verdict about the amnesty and the together of Junts trust that this ruling be favorable for the interests of the independence leader; and the Court of Justice of the European Union is announced as possible guest. If the case is that the Constitutional opens the doors of the amnesty for Puigdemont, the Supreme, in a movement that would mean a clash of judicial trains, the letter of going to European justice is kept.

In Waterloo, Puigdemont tries to maintain an active agenda. In recent weeks he has had meetings with the president of Foment del Treball, Josep Sánchez Llibre, with Arnaldo Otegi, with the mayor of Girona, Lluc Salellas, or with the group of farmers Apag Extremadura. This Friday, he received representatives of the MOND training, a party that in the municipal elections of 2023 achieved 4,297 votes throughout Catalonia (0.14%), to sign a “stable collaboration” agreement with Junts.

The former president of the Generalitat has described the recent maneuvers of the magistrates of the Supreme and his party as « Patalata » through the Secretary General Jordi Turull, has stated that « Latoganstra remains imperturbable with her script of prevaricating persecution against Puigdemont and independence in general. »