Felipe González calls the amnesty decision "garbage": "How can you apologize to criminals?"

BarcelonaThat the amnesty in the Process doesn't please Felipe González is nothing new. However, just hours before the Constitutional Court's ruling upholding the law was made public, the former Socialist president has raised his voice and attacked the report signed by the body's vice president, the progressive Inmaculada Montalbán, which supports its constitutionality: "The rapporteur who did this, why... react?" González said in an interview on Onda Cero. "How can you apologize to criminals?" he asked about the law to erase judicial persecution in the Process.

The Constitutional Court has already given the green light to the amnesty law.And this Thursday, in fact, the final vote was held in a ruling that gave the law its final approval. Even though the judges considered the text to be within the legal framework, González said that in the upcoming elections he will not vote for the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party) because they negotiated a law that, as he recalled, was negotiated directly by the then PSOE Organization Secretary, Santos Cerdán, implicated in the alleged corruption scheme in the Ministry of Transport. "This self-amnesty is a disgrace for any democrat," he added. González supported the thesis defended by the PP: that Sánchez agreed to the amnesty with the independence movement to resist the Moncloa government despite having "lost" the elections and that, therefore, it is an act of "political corruption." However, he ruled out voting for Alberto Núñez Feijóo's party because he does not see it as having "a national project."

The dissident socialist and president of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, has expressed a similar opinion, describing the Constitutional Court's endorsement as "shameful" and attacking the ruling's "legally very childish" and "very weak" arguments. In an interview on La Sexta, he commented that the ruling will have "consequences in other jurisdictions": "If everything that is not prohibited is permitted, in reality the Constitutional Court is almost unnecessary." In this sense, he repeated the arguments against the judicial disregard of the Process, such as that it is "clearly immoral" or that "there is an exception to the principle of equality before the law, which is sacred in any constitutional regime."

Criticism of the Cerdán case

Regarding the alleged corruption scandal in the Cerdán case, González said that "it's very clear that it's not a party issue" because public works contracts are awarded by the Spanish government. González follows the same path. of the 38 former PSOE officials who a couple of days ago asked Sánchez in a letter to resign and call an extraordinary congress of the PSOE in response to the "institutional degradation" they believe has occurred under his leadership. The former Socialist president also believes Sánchez should step aside and call elections. "With the results from the CIS, what doubts do you have?" he quipped.