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Psoe and Junts per Catalunya have signed an agreement that gives Sánchez the necessary votes to be able to return to government, but the two insist on the distrust between the parties. They have agreed on an amnesty law whose real scope is not yet known.
Weeks and days locked up in hotels in Brussels have ended up bearing fruit for the negotiators of both the PSOE, led by Santos Cerdán, and Junts per Catalunya, led by Carles Puigdemont.
The seven deputies of the pro-independence party have been key for Pedro Sánchez, but in exchange, the Socialist has agreed to the approval of an Amnesty Law. According to the agreement, the new law seeks to “ensure full political, institutional and social normality as an essential requirement for tackling the challenges of the immediate future”.
The document also indicates that the law “must include both those responsible and the citizens who, before and after the 2014 referendum and the 2017 referendum, have been subject to judicial decisions or processes linked to these events”. In his appearance, Santos Cerdán pointed out that it would cover the years 2012 to 2023 and assured that no specific names had been mentioned. This was one of the main stumbling blocks for Carles Puigdemont to give his approval.
Puigdemont assured that we are entering “an unprecedented stage, a stage that we will have to know how to explore and exploit, a stage whose course and ambition will depend largely on us”. Furthermore, he defended “the capacity we have to use the tools that we have agreed on and in which we have set ourselves no other limit than the will of the people of Catalonia”.
The text also indicates that “the conclusions of the commissions of enquiry that will be set up in the next legislature will be taken into account in the application of the amnesty law insofar as situations that could arise that fall under the concept of lawfare or the judicialisation of politics, with the consequences that, where appropriate, could give rise to actions of responsibility or legislative modifications”.
In the original agreement signed by the two parties, seen by Aquí Europa, the two parties speak of working to give stability to the legislature. “PSOE and Junts are committed to negotiation and agreements as a method of conflict resolution and agree to seek a set of pacts that contribute to resolving the historic conflict over the political future of Catalonia,” the text reads.
