In a week marked by the unveiling of the dissidence that ministers of the current Government and socialist leaders have made regarding a possible Amnesty Lawa field of confusion is generated.
While the present members of Pedro Sánchez’s Executive rectify their past words, on the other hand, those active barons who despise the idea of benefiting Carles Puigdemont emerge once again. The latest was the former Aragonese president Javier Lambán, now a senator, who this Friday rejected the legislation that the former president proposes as a bargaining chip to invest Sánchez because “it does not fit in the Constitution.” “It would open a leak in the constitutional ship that could lead it directly to the bottom.”
As a senior official who also disagrees with the national strategy, Emiliano García-Page from Castile-La Mancha declared last Monday – before Puigdemont’s appearance in Brussels – that the legislative creation “violates the principle of equality before the law” and “collides with the Constitution.” “. To which he added that “more than an amnesty, it is a self-amnesty.” In this sense, the critical voices of Page and Lambán resonate widely since they are, and have been, political pieces that have contributed many votes to the PSOE and Pedro Sánchez himself.
But one of the testimonies that can delve deeper into the socialist divide is that of the former secretary general between 1997 and 2000 and former European commissioner, Joaquín Almunia. In an interview with Radio Euskadi, he expressed his conviction that “at the moment” there are no conditions for an amnesty “from the political point of view of the general interest of society.”
Almunia has assured that it must be the Constitutional Court that decides, “in due course”, whether what the independence leader demands to support the investiture of Sánchez, fits or not in the Constitution. “I have no advance knowledge of what the Constitutional Court will decide if the issue is ever submitted to it. There are opinions in favor, there are opinions against the place within the Constitution of an amnesty,” he added.