Pedro Sanchez agrees to pardon the Catalan independence movement and accelerates the steps necessary to invest him as president

Pedro Sanchez knew this as long ago as November of that year It’s deadline month To achieve his re-election, and if he does not succeed before the 27th, There will be repeated elections in Spain. Therefore, on the night of Tuesday, October 31, while the royal family celebrated Princess Leonor’s eighteenth birthday in El Pardo Palace, Halloween was also celebrated in the streets of Madrid, Sanchez and Catalan President Pere AragonésThey talked on the phone and agreed What should be included Amnesty law demanded by the Catalan independence movement in exchange for support for the inauguration of Sanchez as a new president.

This will become the agreement law Project Which could be introduced this week in Parliament.

This initiative would eventually lead to its establishment by the President of Congress, Francina Armengol A date for discussion Inauguration of Pedro Sanchez.

This announcement, which may be announced within the next few hours, will be on the agenda of the parliamentary session in which Pedro Sanchez will participate. He will seek re-election For next week.

PSOE filter has The most famous weave a web of adhesions Which allows him to achieve the parliamentary majority necessary for Congress to give him its confidence.

It has already agreed with Somar, the coalition of leftist parties led by the current second vice president and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, and with Basque independents.

However, it is a tough nut to crack Catalan separatistswho had already allowed Sanchez to be installed in 2020, but this time they raised their requirements in return.

The Esquerra Republica de Catalunya (ERC), the party to which the president of the autonomous region of Aragones belongs, is demanding the amnesty demanded by Catalan sovereignty. Be global. This includes For all people Who have open criminal cases linked to the illegal self-determination referendum and unilateral declaration of independence organized by Catalan separatists in 2017.

The ERC application includes the activist groups Tsunami Democràtic and the Committee for the Defense of the Republic, which participated in Protests with burning containers They have pending cases in the national court on charges of terrorism.

Pedro Sánchez also needs to rely on the other Catalan independence party, Junts per Catalunya, which has not yet commented on the agreement reached with Esquerra.

The leader of the Junts is Carles Puigdemont, the former Catalan president who fled Spain in 2017 after declaring independence.

since then He lives in Belgiumwhere he has already received a visit from two delegations interested in obtaining Puigdemont’s support for Sánchez’s inauguration.

At the beginning of September, Vice President and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, met with the former Catalan president, who is considered a “fugitive from justice” in Spain.

On Monday, Pedro Sánchez sent the PSOE’s organizing secretary, Santos Cerdán, to negotiate with Puigdemont in Brussels.

It was after ten o’clock at night in Spain on Tuesday the 31st when the PSOE and Esquerra announced in a joint statement that the agreement was about to expire.

In addition to the amnesty, Catalonia is demanding that the central government transfer short- and medium-distance trains to it and improve financing for the autonomous region.

Congress is scheduled to meet on Friday. President Armengol will then likely announce the possible date for the discussion of Pedro Sanchez’s inauguration.

The Socialist Party expects that its date could be set next week. Between Tuesday, November 7 and Thursday, November 9.

The Kings were to pay an official visit to Denmark in those days, and although Felipe VI, as head of state, should be the first to be notified by the President of Congress when the investiture would be discussed, his presence in Spain would not be necessary. To hold the parliamentary session.

At the end of this week, the results of the consultations launched by Pedro Sánchez with the PSOE regarding the agreements with Somare and the rest of the parliamentary blocs will also be ready.

From the Popular Party, they criticized the outdated agreement between Sánchez and Pere Aragonés.

“with Night and betrayal “Tonight announces to us that the Human Rights Commission already considers that its ‘expectations’ regarding the amnesty have been met,” said Coca Gamarra, Secretary General of the People’s Party and her party’s spokesperson in Congress.

“The same people who committed the crime are writing a clean slate,” Qamra added. Kneeling PSOE. Sanchez’s ambition has swallowed his initials.

The PP also rebukes Sánchez because he took the opportunity to conclude the agreement with Esquerra on a day when all of Spain was watching another channel: on Tuesday the 31st, Princess Leonor, eldest daughter of Felipe VI and Queen Letizia, met the 18th target. I swear to the Spanish Constitution.

The ceremony, which the Spaniards followed with all sincerity, took place in the House of Representatives, where pictures showed the Prime Minister speaking animatedly and without interruption, with the President of Congress – to whom he belongs – while nearly 600 people present took turns taking the constitutional oath around a kiss of the hand. the princess.