Antoni Bassas' analysis: 'The Constitutional Court will endorse the amnesty. The Supreme Court will laugh.'

The preamble to the law states that the purpose of the amnesty is to pacify the situation in Catalonia. Every day that passes without its implementation brings nothing to peace.

02/06/2025
2 min

We have leaks about the amnesty, which we'll discuss shortly. But before that, I can't have to cover a Ukrainian military operation that has the world aghast (and worried about Russia's reaction).

Ukraine has destroyed 41 Russian bombers which were stationed at four different air bases, some located thousands of miles away from Ukraine, in Siberia, in a complicated and creative operation, consisting of bringing drones into Russia in ordinary trucks, and once near the bases, having them fly and attack billions of euros. There was a meeting of the countries at war in Turkey, and it would appear that Ukraine attacked the day before to sit at the table in a position of greater strength.

Meanwhile, today several media outlets report that theThe draft of the final resolution of the amnesty law endorses the breadth of the law.. It is a text, over 200 pages long, drafted by the vice president of the court, progressive judge Inmaculada Montalbán, who only considers three minor grounds of unconstitutionality raised by the PP in its appeal against the law. The judge will explain this to the other judges next week, and on Sant Joan Day, the Constitutional Court will declare the amnesty constitutional, in a vote that will be resolved, barring any changes, by 6 to 4: the six judges chosen at the proposal of the PSOE over the four judges proposed by the PP.

Very important: once the Constitutional Court has ruled that the law is constitutional, will Puigdemont be able to return? No, because the Constitutional Court won't rule on whether the embezzlement is eligible for amnesty. This morning, journalist Ernesto Ekaizer said on TV3 that the embezzlement won't be resolved now, but rather later. Therefore, to put it euphemistically, Puigdemont won't return now, but rather later.

Remember, it's outrageous that we're in this situation: the Supreme Court's criterion for holding that there was embezzlement was that Puigdemont and the rest were enriched because instead of paying the 1st of October out of their own pockets, which is what should have been due because they knew it was illegal, they made the Generalitat pay, and therefore,

But it's even more scandalous if you consider the following: when Puigdemont was imprisoned in Germany those days, the German judge told Llarena that he wouldn't extradite him for rebellion (which was nowhere to be seen), but that if he wanted, he would send him to Spain for embezzlement. Llarena and Marchena concluded that it was not "only" embezzlement. And Puigdemont remained free until now. In other words, Llarena and Marchena refused to extradite Puigdemont "only" for embezzlement and now refuse to grant him amnesty solely for embezzlement.

The preamble to the law states that the purpose of the amnesty is to pacify the situation in Catalonia. Every day that passes without its implementation brings nothing to peace.

Good morning.

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