Junts hopes that the amnesty law will be definitively approved in the spring of next year

MADRID, 2 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The spokesman for Junts in the Senate, Josep Lluís Cleries, has predicted that the amnesty law that his formation negotiated with the PSOE for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez could be definitively approved by the Cortes Generales in the spring of next year.

"It will be a little later than initially planned, but the important thing is that it is approved," said Cleries in an interview on the RNE Parliament program, collected by Europa Press, in which he calculated that this amnesty law could be passed. be definitively approved between March and June 2024.

As Cleries recalled, we must take into account the reform of the Senate Regulations promoted by the PP to delay this amnesty law in the Upper House for up to two months, in addition to considering that the month of January is a non-working month in Parliament.

It is worth remembering that the bill presented by the PSOE after the pact with Junts has only passed the qualification of the Congressional Board and there is still no date for it to be seen in the corresponding Commission or in the Plenary Session of the Lower House.

In any case, once it leaves Congress it will reach the Senate, where it will be delayed for at least two months and the PP will foreseeably use its majority to veto this proposed amnesty law, which should return to the Lower House to lift this veto and is definitively approved.

Likewise, Cleries has taken advantage of the reform of the Regulations promoted by the PP to accuse those of Alberto Núñez Feijóo of making "use" of the Senate, "where they skip all regulatory procedures."

"I, who have been in the Senate for a while, have never seen it, with majorities even from the PP or the PSOE. Therefore, it is a grotesque situation, but let's hope that democracy is respected, because ultimately democracy is based on there being majorities and at all times these majorities must be respected," he defended.

At the same time, he has denounced that the PP uses the Senate as a "private farm," although he has guaranteed that his party will do "everything possible to ensure that the process is processed as quickly as possible."

Cleries has also spoken about the meeting that Junts and PSOE will hold this Saturday in Geneva with an international verifier, although he has opted for "maximum discretion" to seek an agreement.

"We do not talk about these issues beforehand, but when the agreements are confirmed, we will inform them, because sometimes we want to talk about possible agreements before there is an agreement. We have to let things flow, let them flow calmly. , without external tensions," he defended.

At the same time, he has claimed the role of the international verifier "because the fact that there is someone external makes things easier", although he has avoided confirming that the Henry Dunant Foundation is in charge of mediating this meeting.