Junts and PSOE continue negotiations in Brussels to try to close the agreement on the amnesty

BRUSSELS/MADRID/BARCELONA, Nov. 7 (EUROPA PRESS) -

The negotiators from Junts and the PSOE who are trying to close an agreement in Brussels on the amnesty law that facilitates the investiture of Pedro Sánchez as President of the Government will continue negotiating during the night to try to resolve the last obstacles that are holding back the pact and that this Tuesday led the parties to lower expectations that an understanding was imminent.

Since last Sunday the Secretary of Organization of the PSOE, Santos Cerdán, returned to Brussels to continue the negotiations from a hotel in the European neighborhood of the Belgian capital, contacts between the parties have not ceased, although they have avoided face-to-face meetings. to face. On Monday, in fact, the Junts staff, with the exception of its leader, Carles Puigdemont, met a few meters from the hotel where the Socialists are located but they did not meet.

The exchange of documents to outline the law will continue throughout the night, as sources familiar with the negotiation have told Europa Press, while the two parties insist that they continue working and moving forward, but with technical issues still to be resolved.

In this sense, the sources consulted attribute the "slowness" in the process to the density of the text, which requires the review of legal advisors from both parties and add that the negotiation would advance "faster" if it were only a question policy.

They also underline the importance of the "first amnesty law of democracy" and the importance therefore of doing a "good job" without setting "any date" of deadline, beyond the limit of November 27 and despite the fact that since the PSOE had signed up as a possible calendar this week.

Thus, the sources insist on "continuing" working and advancing both in resolving the obstacles in the amnesty law and "some details" of the political agreement for the investiture.

Furthermore, Junts sources consulted by Europa Press have explained that on Monday they did not bring together many positions in relation to the differences that separate them, given that they remain stuck in "technical issues" to refine the wording of the amnesty law.

Throughout Tuesday, the teams from both parties have been working on some aspects of the drafting, especially in the explanatory statement because it is where the scope and constitutionality of the rule is at stake, they point out.

"We have already had many different drafts and we have not made much progress," point out the aforementioned sources, who have not dared to predict whether there could be a full investiture this week.

Other sources have pointed out the need for "quiet and discreet" work to be able to advance a possible agreement.

"The pressure is on them [the socialists]," Junts have highlighted, making it clear that the margin of negotiation can be extended until November 27.

Thus, they consider that there is still time: "We are doing what ERC has not done," add the aforementioned sources.

In this context, and asked about another matter at the end of the Council of Ministers, the minister spokesperson, Isabel Rodríguez, referred to the next legislature, clarifying that it will be "if the investiture continues and, therefore, there is a new Government , as we wish."