It is magnificent news that the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union has endorsed the amnesty law. The end of exile and disqualification is one step closer. But it will not be the last, because when it comes to Catalan independence, what Congress may approve, what the Constitutional Court may validate, or what the EU may approve is merely an opinion to the ears of a judgmental court that lives in a state of perpetual judicial mode.How scary!andWhatever he can do, let him do.
The text says that the amnesty "appears to have been approved in a real context of political and social reconciliation." Let's hope so, because talking about reconciliation is, in this case, an inaccurate sweetener. We are not talking about a dispute between two equals who now meet again and make peace, but about a state that acted with patriotic policing, police violence, spies, economic panic, and judicial bias against a popular political movement that expressed itself in a referendum.
The PSOE itself—and the PSC—that bought into everything...challengeThe amnesty law was accepted begrudgingly. And what about the PP, Vox, or groups like Societat Civil Catalana, who should be blushing after the EU's legal counsel stated that the law "meets the jurisprudential standards established by the European Court of Human Rights"?
True reconciliation would mean that referendums like those in Scotland or Quebec would be possible without state violence. But when the justice system goes so far as to argue that the leaders of the Catalan independence movement enriched themselves personally because they avoided using their own money, like someone who pays for their daughter's wedding with public funds (the example is theirs), then reconciliation is a pipe dream.
