He reiterates that the reform of sedition is a commitment of the legislature and they will fulfill it, but he warns again that they need a majority
MADRID, 7 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The PSOE spokeswoman and Minister of Education and Vocational Training, Pilar Alegría, denied this Monday that any party leader had visited the former Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont, to negotiate a favorable deal for his return to Spain. In addition, she has reiterated that the reform of the crime of sedition is a legislative commitment and that it will be fulfilled, but she has warned that they need to have a majority.
“No, the answer to your question is no, by any leader of the PSOE”, she stated when asked if any person from the PSOE went to Belgium to talk with Puigdemonto, at the press conference she has offered this Tuesday since the party’s headquarters on Ferraz Street.
In addition, he has indicated that they do not give any value to the words of the former president, “an escaped person who would have to give explanations to the justice of this country”, as he has described.
In this way he responded to the words of the independence leader, a fugitive from justice for 5 years, who on October 30 stated that he had received visits from members of the PSOE to generate “expectations of good treatment through reform of the penal code and a pardon as long as he agreed to appear before the Supreme Court”.
“I’m sure Pedro Sánchez knows what I’m talking about,” he wrote in a two-page letter that he shared via Twitter last Sunday, October 30, the day he was five years abroad after 1-O.
On the other hand, regarding the possible reform of the crime of sedition, Pilar Alegría has reiterated that the PSOE since the beginning of the legislature has defended the homologation of the Penal Code with the rest of the most advanced democracies in Europe and has insisted that in order to to carry it out they need “at least 176 votes”. However, she has assured that the party’s commitment in this regard “has been clear since the beginning of the legislature.”
Thus, he has reiterated that the PSOE fulfills its commitments and that therefore this reform will be possible when it is transferred to Congress and the rest of the groups necessary to achieve a majority also accept and approve it. “There has to be a disposition on the part of other parties that sit in the Cortes”, he has pointed out.
In addition, he has taken the opportunity to point out that he considers “unacceptable” on the part of the PP and its leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, that this “commitment” of the Government be used to “breach the Constitution” in reference to the breakdown of negotiations to renew the Council General of the Judicial Power (CGPJ).
