The PSOE believes that the tension in the streets against the amnesty will decrease when the new Government takes office

Patxi Lopez points out that Junts and ERC are now calling for a referendum within the Constitution and voting against a unilateral consultation

MADRID, 13 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The PSOE spokesperson in the Congress of Deputies, Patxi López, trusts that the tension in the streets and the demonstrations against the amnesty law and the investiture of the socialist leader Pedro Sánchez will decrease when the new Executive begins to govern.

He has also highlighted that, although the pro-independence groups with which the PSOE has agreed - ERC and Junts - continue to ask for an independence referendum, they now do so based on article 92 of the Constitution.

It also highlights that after formalizing agreements with the PSOE, the two parties have voted against, in the Catalan parliament, holding a unilateral consultation, as proposed by the other pro-independence party in Catalonia, the CUP.

After the massive demonstrations this Sunday against the amnesty law and the pacts of the PSOE with the independence movement, López has made it clear that the socialists respect the right of citizens to demonstrate, but has accused the PP of calling these concentrations in based on "lies" and has criticized the "slander" expressed by the 'popular' leaders who have led these demonstrations in the main Spanish cities.

"What is not acceptable are the arguments, slander and lies on which (the protests) are being called, saying that Spain is breaking up, that this is a dictatorship and that Sánchez is a danger to democracy," he recriminated.

López has specifically charged against the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who in recent days has accused Sánchez of sneaking in a dictatorship through the back door and subjugating the institutions. She has reproached her words and linked them to the acts of vandalism suffered by the PSOE headquarters in recent days.

"You start with these shams and someone ends up interpreting that the enemy of this country is the socialists" and people appear who attack the PSOE headquarters or attack socialist militants, as happened with the leader of the party in Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Cádiz).

Therefore, he has asked the PP for "restraint and sanity", using the same words that Pedro Sánchez spoke this Saturday, and has asked Alberto Núñez Feijóo's people to avoid "slander that generates hatred and resentment."

When asked what the PSOE is going to do to quell the demonstrations that have been recurring for more than a week, the socialist spokesperson considers that as soon as the new Executive begins to govern, citizens will see that it carries out social measures such as the increase of pensions and the minimum wage and that Spain is not broken, nor is the country a dictatorship nor is Sánchez a danger to democracy "quite the opposite."

Regarding the amnesty law, he believes that citizens will see that it is a mechanism to seek reunion in Catalonia and this community with the rest of Spain. He also defends that it is consistent with the measures applied in the last legislature, the pardons, the elimination of the crime of sedition and the reduction of embezzlement.

He also maintains that it is a tool that serves to "recover politics to solve a political problem" and has also assured that "it works" as has been seen so far in Catalonia, where the situation is, in his opinion, much better than in 2017 in terms of social coexistence, political relations and economic tranquility.

Along the same lines, the Minister of Education and Vocational Training and spokesperson for the PSOE, Pilar Alegría, also showed her respect for the Spaniards who take to the streets to protest "especially when they are demonstrations that follow the path of respect and tranquility." , he pointed out.

However, he has also asked for the same respect for the citizens who this Sunday, the majority, as he indicated, did not demonstrate. Along the same lines, he has argued that the future amnesty law will be approved by the majority of the Congress of Deputies, 178 votes, according to him, which is "where national sovereignty resides."

In this way, given the rejection of the law in the street and by the Judiciary, associations of judges, prosecutors, senior officials and other groups, he has stressed that the law will have a majority in Congress, where the legitimate representatives of the country are. , which is "plural and diverse."

He has also indicated that the rule, once presented, can be appealed before the Constitutional Court, which will decide whether or not it complies with the Magna Carta. "Where is the problem?" He indicated to underline that the PSOE is following legal channels.