MADRID, 17 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The first vice president of the Government and deputy general secretary of the PSOE, María Jesús Montero, has criticized the decision of the socialist senator Javier Lambán, to skip the voting discipline on the Amnesty Law, since she considers that it is not a coherent decision and that coherence ” would lead to other issues.”
“I believe that in politics you have to be coherent regarding the issues that seem to you not to be in line with what you think. And being coherent does not mean skipping the discipline of the group, but rather it would entail other types of issues,” he said. indicated this Friday at the opening of the conference ‘The challenge of equality in the SEPI group’, at the headquarters of the SEPI Foundation, in Torrelodones.
Along the same lines, he says that each one “has to answer for his own coherence” but cannot exercise it “through the institutional positions that one occupies” but rather it has to be with “other types of attitudes”, as he has indicated.
The ‘number two’ of the PSOE has made these statements after Lambán, one of the main critical voices of the party against the Amnesty Law that will benefit those involved in the independence process, decided to be absent from the vote on the law in the Senate this Tuesday.
The PSOE announced the next day that it would open a file against Lambán for violating the discipline of the parliamentary group, which could lead to sanctions against the general secretary of the socialists of Aragon.
Montero has criticized his decision and has also pointed out that both the amnesty and the pardons for those convicted by the procès “have served to defeat the independence movement at the polls”, after the Catalan elections last Sunday in which the PSC was the leading force. with 42 seats and the nationalist/independence forces did not gain a majority in the Parliament for the first time in democracy.
Along the same lines, he defends that we must value these policies, “which are sometimes risky or someone may not share” but they are bearing fruit. He therefore considers that “everyone” has to “rejoice” and recognize that the path of trying to reach agreement and dialogue and “turn the page” is much more effective than “confrontation.”
Montero complains that only the PP does not celebrate the results in Catalonia “as if it did not like that the independentists had obtained a lower result” than the PSC.
