He rules out that Zapatero can attend the first meeting as a socialist member, in which he does confirm that Cerdán will be there
CAIRO, Nov. 24 (From the special envoy of EUROPA PRESS, Leyre Guijo) –
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has maintained that the inclusion of a verification mechanism in the dialogue with Junts can be helpful given the “mistrust” between this party and the PSOE, while at the same time he has ruled out that the amnesty law may end up taking a toll on you.
Sánchez has spoken for the first time about the figure of the verifier, included in the investiture agreement sealed between the Socialists and Junts, in an informal conversation with the journalists who have accompanied him on his tour of Israel, Palestine and Egypt.
The president has maintained that given that these are two parties that distrust each other and come from very different positions, the verification mechanism “can even help.”
The pact signed by the two parties in Brussels after an intense negotiation in which the ‘number three’ of the Socialists, Santos Cerdán, and the former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont participated, contemplates an international verification mechanism in charge of “accompanying, verifying and carrying out monitoring of the entire negotiation process and the agreements reached between both formations”.
Regarding the first round of negotiations, which is scheduled to take place next week outside of Spain, Sánchez has ruled out that former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero could attend as a member of the socialist delegation, in which he has confirmed that Santos Cerdán will be there but he did not want to give more clues about the rest of the members.
Sánchez has insisted once again that the PSOE has negotiated with Junts publicly and has made its agreement known to the citizens, disgracing the PP that also tried to negotiate with the Catalan independentists but has not given details or explanations in this regard. In his opinion, we must aspire to resolve this conflict and everything that goes in that direction is being recognized by citizens, as proven by the fact that the situation in Catalonia is far from that of 2017.
Asked if he believes that the amnesty law that has been presented in Congress by virtue of the agreements with Junts and ERC may end up taking its toll on him, the president has maintained that he now has four years ahead of him and that although at the time the pardons for The leaders of the ‘procés’ generated a lot of controversy “today no one reproaches me for the grace measures.”
On the other hand, he has minimized the path that the PP’s efforts may have to bring the debate around the amnesty law to Europe, recalling that in this Wednesday’s debate in the European Parliament on the rule of law in Spain, the commissioner of Justice, Didier Reynders, made it clear that this is an internal matter.
Sánchez has framed everything in the “PP strategy of exporting internal debates and discrediting”, while expressing the Government’s willingness to give all the information it needs to Brussels, which has requested it, and has specified that in no case will At the moment he has discussed the amnesty law with the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
