Conceptually, amnesties are granted to correct abuses of power committed by the state. This answers the question posed by Felipe González, who was the first to react (with a bitter tone, for a change) to the Constitutional Court's ruling in favor of the amnesty law, on behalf of all the patriots of good Spain: "How is it possible to ask for forgiveness from criminals?" he asked.
Perhaps not asking for forgiveness from criminals, but restoring the names, rights, and freedoms of people who have been treated as criminals by the state unjustifiably, and therefore unjustly, is possible. It is an amnesty: a correction of the abuses perpetrated by the powers of the state. Felipe González boasts of knowing what an amnesty is, but he seems to have forgotten it. If he had a better memory, he would remember that he and many around him benefited from the 1977 amnesty, and that they too had been criminals. They were criminals under Franco's legislation, of course, but also for many good Spaniards who at that time were exclaiming how it was possible that their beloved Spain could amnesty those subversive elements, similar to those who not so long ago were still being executed with death sentences signed by Franco and the Council of Ministers. (By the way: there will be those who object that the repression of a dictatorship cannot be compared with the rule of law and the rule of law of a democracy, but here we would have much to discuss, especially when between the dictatorship and democracy there has been a falsely closed Transition. Let us leave it at least in the fact that they are abused. They occur in a democracy, and all the more so need to be recognized and corrected.)
However, we already know that the Constitutional Court's ruling won't resolve the situation either. It's better to beat people up on October 1st than to back down now.
Meanwhile, Sánchez remains effectively determined to stay in power. As smart as a ferret (or as a whore as a genet, as he prefers), in one week he has almost defeated BBVA's takeover bid for Sabadell and has reaffirmed his opposition to two foreign enemies, Trump and (this Thursday) Netanyahu's Israel, for whom he is calling for the EU to suspend the treaty. Especially with Trump, who has directly threatened Spanish interests, Sánchez continues to put the PP in a bad light: it's difficult to justify the main opposition party not supporting the government when a foreign leader—even the US president—disregards Spanish sovereignty. They don't have Sánchez as cornered as they thought.
