Antoni Bassas' analysis: 'One year after the amnesty, and Puigdemont remains in exile'
It's being violated because the Supreme Court opposes it. And it will continue to oppose it when, in a few weeks, the Constitutional Court rules that the amnesty law is constitutional. No further questions, Your Honor.
I know you already know, but for the record: today marks one year since the amnesty and President Puigdemont and Ministers Comín and Puig remain in exile, and those who were political prisoners, like Oriol Junqueras, remain barred from office. Because when we say it's been a year since the amnesty, we mean that it's been a year since the amnesty law was passed. It's a law, passed in Congress. And it's being violated because the Supreme Court opposes it. And it will continue to be opposed when, in a few weeks, the Constitutional Court declares the amnesty law constitutional. No further questions, Your Honor.
Meanwhile, in Sánchez is making his life more complicated. because of a PSOE activist, Leire Díez, who had held positions in public companies, until now unknown to the media, who was recorded talking about searching for evidence to incriminate officials of the Civil Guard, the unit that investigates the most serious forms of delinquency and organized crime. The reason Today's front page says that in those days when Sánchez retired to Moncloa to decide whether to continue or fold due to everything that had come out of his wife's business dealings, the campaign against prosecutors, judges and the UCO began.
If you want to know more, you'll find everything I told you explained in detail on this double-page spread, where Sánchez is highlighted.
The PP wants to take advantage of it, of course, and Feijóo, as he only has the support of Vox for a motion of censure, has called for a demonstration in Madrid's Plaza España, on Sunday, June 8, for "decent Spaniards" to cry out against Sánchez. The demonstration is being called under the slogan "No mafia, yes democracy." The same democracy that has halted the amnesty law.
But as always, there is something for everyone. Jorge Fernández Díaz's former number two has just been imprisoned., arrested on Tuesday for a money laundering and data-trading scheme. What data? Well, all of yours: from the Civil Registry, transportation tickets, telephone records, etc. Fernández Díaz had a keen eye for choosing his collaborators.
Now, if we're talking about demonstrations, the one that continues to be called every month is the one in Valencia against Mazón, who seven months later remains president of the Valencian Generalitat, to the scorn of everyone, especially the families of the 228 people killed by the DANA, many of whom would not have lost their lives if the Valencian government had fulfilled its obligation to protect them.
And this is the chronicle, clean and bare, of an amnesty law anniversary that is not in the mood for much celebration.
Good morning.
