The Constitutional one gives the government with the endorsement to amnesty | Spain

The Constitutional Court (TC) has given The first step to guarantee the so discussed amnesty law Right on the eve that the PP celebrates His sixth great street protest of the Legislature. All the previous five were directed precisely against the measures of grace to the Catalan independentistas. Now the focus has changed objectives. Now the motto designed at number 13 on Madrid Calle Genoa, with which the popular ones have been hitting days and call to demonstrate next Sunday in Madrid, is « Democracy or mafia. » So the PP added the advance of the future decision of the TC to the « many reasons » to take to the street against the government. The plot was put by the leader in person: Alberto Núñez Feijóo porfó in declare the “unconstitutional” amnesty law, however much the only organ of the competent state to declare it says otherwise.

The government has lived many bad weeks in this legislature, but last I could compete for the dubious title of the worst. The lack of explanations about the dark adventures of the socialist militant Leire Díez to air dirty rags of the Civil Guard has put the PSOE completely defensive. In the midst of such tribulations, the dissemination of what is already announced as the criteria formed of the TC on the amnesty law grants a respite to the Executive. On the one hand, the great matter with which the right tried to delegitimize the beginning of Pedro Sánchez’s current mandate. And at the same time creates a favorable climate in order to maintain dialogue with the two Catalan independence groups, indispensable to meet Sánchez’s goal to reach 2027. Feijóo appealed to them last week to join a motion of censure. Nor the movements of days ago to prevent the officialization of Catalan, Basque and Galician in the EUnor now this rejection of the TC to a resource precisely from the PP contribute to making possible the impossible effort of the opposition leader.

The government, of course, avoided any manifestation of euphoria, especially because what was known this Monday is still a sentence project. The only reaction was that of the Minister of Digital Transformation, Óscar López, who limited himself to underline that the law is « fully constitutional », which has had positive effects by appeasing the political conflict in Catalonia and expressing its « maximum respect » to the TC. « I hope, I trust and want the sentence to be positive, » he said. On the part of adding, his spokesman and Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, even without definitive the decision, said he would support the performance of the Executive: « We would be facing good news that would confirm the government’s policy in the face of the judicialization of the conflict and dismantle the lies of the right and the PP. »

The PP and the media on the right had been deploying a campaign to delegitimize the TC for a long timepersonalized in its president, Cándido Conde-Pumpid. One of the popular vice -secretaries, Esteban González Pons, came to qualify the Constitutional of « Cancer of the Right of Law », words that were forced to withdraw after the raised dust. The first official reactions of the popular on Monday ignored the clash with the court. The general secretary, Cuca Gamarra, did not go beyond adding the future ruling to the « many reasons » to go to Saturday’s demonstration in Madrid. In his usual weekly appearance at the headquarters of Genoa, the spokesman of the party, Borja Sémper, loaded the inks in the PSOE agreements with the independentistas, also without entering into valuations on the court. The amnesty constituted « a deep immorality », « an indecency », an act of « political corruption », words that revealed where the PP framework intends to place now.

It was Feijóo who launched a little further, in an act in the afternoon in Cáceres. The leader of the PP also did not attacked directly to the TC, but ignored his presentation and stood above it, ignoring the consideration of the Court of Guarantees as a supreme interpreter of the Constitution: “Today they intend to convince us that buying a government with privileges is legal. I say that it is not ethical, nor is it moral, nor is it legal. It is unconstitutional because all the experts have said so. Senate, from Congress, the General Council of the Judiciary, the most prestigious constitutionalists … have said that the amnesty is immoral. ”

The permanent Vox pressure on the PP has increased in recent weeks, with increasingly frequent attacks in parliamentary headquarters. And Santiago Abascal did not miss the opportunity to also load against the popular and blame them for the decision of the TC for having agreed their renewal with the government. « It cannot be said that the government is a mafia and at the same time reach agreements with that mafia, » said the Vox leader in an interview in the Ana Rosa’s program.

Nor did the independentists offer euphoria samples, Among other things because the future sentence will not affect its two leaders, Carles Puigdemont, Junts, and Oriol Junqueras, of ERC. The presentation eludes pronounce on the crimes of embezzlement for which both are convicted and on which The Supreme Court maintains the criterion that they are not amnistiable. The two formations trusted this decision. They remember that they have always insisted that the law was drafted carefully not to exceed constitutional limits and taking into account European jurisprudence. Now they feel endorsed in their arguments, but insist that the battle is not over. « The problem is not the constitutionality of the law, but the rebellion of the Supreme Court when applying it, » said Junts spokesman Josep Rius. « One more step to restore justice, » Junqueras said, while stressing that the road is resulting « too long. »