“The independence process could have been many things, but there was no terrorism,” he says
BARCELONA, 14 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Cortes, Félix Bolaños, assured this Wednesday that he has no doubt that there will be an amnesty law and that it covers “all” those who participated in the independence process.
“I have no doubt that there will be an agreement and that there will be an amnesty law. And I have no doubt because we share the objective. The objective is that we are able to approve a law that covers all the people who were involved in the process independence,” he explained in an interview on Rac1 collected by Europa Press.
After specifying that there are open conversations, he did not want to reveal anything about it, nor if there has been progress regarding the text initially agreed upon and which Junts opposed in the vote in Congress.
For Bolaños, the important thing is to be able to open a new stage in Catalonia in which there are no people involved in the independence process who have open criminal proceedings: “And this has to be done in a certain way so that it is an absolutely impeccable law, because it will be a law that is highly attacked from the right.”
Regarding the information that indicates that the PSOE has committed with Junts that the Prosecutor’s Office will shield the Democratic Tsunami and the Russian plot of the ‘process’ are included in the amnesty, the minister has defended the “independence” of the Prosecutor’s Office and that it does not receive criteria or political directions.
“Sometimes they are criteria that go in one direction or another. Let’s let the professionals work,” claimed Bolaños, who has reiterated that during the independence process there was no terrorism.
When asked if he guarantees that with the amnesty law they will not be able to be tried for terrorism, he stated that it is the courts that will have to apply the law: “But in Spain we know very well what terrorism has been, and the independence process was able to be many things, but there was no terrorism.
Thus, he has refused to comment on judicial procedures and has expressed his respect for the judicial system and the decisions they make.
He has also assured that the amnesty law covers “all the cases” that occurred during the independence process and that it does not leave anyone out, he said.
“The purpose of the law is to cover everyone and the law covers everyone,” the minister insisted, without wanting to specify whether it includes the former president of the Generalitat, Carles Puigdemont, and the general secretary of ERC, Marta Rovira.
He also did not want to reveal whether he and the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, have spoken with Puigdemont, despite confirming that the latter said no recently.
