Amnesty Law | Direct: Congress approves the amnesty law in committee after the changes

MADRID, 7 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) -

This Thursday, the Justice Commission approved the new opinion of the Amnesty Law, incorporating the four transactional amendments that the PSOE has agreed with the independentists of ERC and Junts.

The initiative has had the support of PSOE, Sumar, ERC, Junts, Bildu, PNV and Podemos, representing the Mixed Group, and against the 'no' of PP and Vox.

Once approved by the commission, the opinion of the Amnesty Law will be submitted to the Plenary Session of Congress, which will see it next week. Of course, as the agenda was already closed and its modification would require unanimity that neither the PP nor Vox were going to grant, the PSOE and its allies will force a second plenary session, on Thursday the 14th, in which the proposal will be debated and voted on. of law in monographic form.

The new text of the amnesty that the Congress of Deputies has on the table seeks to shield former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont from the "street terrorism" that the Supreme Court is investigating in the framework of the case it has opened against the Junts MEP for the riots attributed to the independence platform 'Tsunami Democràtic'.

The transactional amendments agreed upon this Thursday by PSOE, Junts, ERC, EH Bilu, PNV and Sumar also aim to protect those investigated in the Russian plot of the 'Voloh case' being investigated by the Investigative Court Number 1 of Barcelona, ​​whose judge insists on that the contacts of the independence movement with Moscow would be sponsored by Puigdemont and could constitute crimes of treason and against the peace or independence of the State and related to national defense.

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