Antoni Bassas' analysis: "Amnesty. Spain has no remedy, nor does it want one."
If the amnesty closes anything, only you will say it at the ballot box. Today, Catalonia isn't back to normal (it can't be if the president from 2017 is still in exile), but the unrest in the streets that existed eight years ago doesn't exist. The reason isn't so much the amnesty as the inability of the pro-independence parties to go further in 2017 and compete among themselves without destroying each other, which has made everything boring.
As they already told you would happen yesterday, the Constitutional Court ruled that the amnesty law was in accordance with the Constitution.
The PP, Vox, and Felipe González, excuse the redundancy, have vomited bile. This morning, for example, The reasonpublishes on the front page photos of the six court judges who voted in favor, in a kind of accusation of malice aforethought in Spain. Inside They make the four judges who voted against speak, and one says that the amnesty "is a true earthquake for the pillars of the 1978 constitutional order." And Felipe González has spoken of "garbage." This Prime Minister, with a minister in prison for state terrorism, gives lessons in the rule of law. They are nothing more than fanatical Spanish nationalists who can't stand the fact that the PP won the elections but couldn't muster a majority to govern. And in González's case, it's disloyalty to his party, which he still considers to be the most handsome.
Here is the resolution explainedAnd what I don't need to explain to you is that, despite being approved in Congress and endorsed by the court, the law is not being applied and Today Carles Puigdemont will speak again from exile. from Belgium.
Part of the responsibility for this deadlock lies with the PSOE itself and Sánchez himself. The PSOE was part of the fanaticism behind Article 155. Sánchez promised to arrest Puigdemont, and Isla's words still resonate, saying that "no amnesty, no nothing like that"It wasn't until he needed Junts' votes that he veered toward amnesty. Just yesterday, President Isla asked for the law to be applied immediately. But when you've contributed to creating a mood that demonizes amnesty and the leaders of the Proceso, and the Proceso itself, it's very difficult to do the vi, which the Socialists have had to do, and the other to say that this is "political corruption," as the PP and Felipe González say.
If the amnesty closes anything, only you will say it at the ballot box. It has made everything boring. The amnesty will close a historic era, for sure. But the conflict persists. We just saw it with the ruling on the paintings at the National Museum of Art of Catalonia.
That the law was passed a year ago, that it was declared constitutional, and yet the Supreme Court refuses to apply it is an institutional anomaly typical of Spain every time the debate affects Catalonia. Something similar happened with the Statute of Autonomy in 2010, but in the opposite direction, because the conservative majority on the Court ruined it. Regarding Catalonia, Spain has no remedy, nor does it want one. The day the PP and Vox govern, the revenge will be terrible.
Good morning.
