BNG, PNV and ERC endorse the substitution of the crime of sedition: "It's a step"

PONTEVEDRA, 12 Nov. (EUROPE PRESS) -

The parliamentary deputy spokesperson for the BNG, Olalla Rodil, the PNV spokesperson in Congress, Aitor Esteban, and the former ERC spokesperson in Congress, Joan Tardá, endorsed this Saturday the Government's decision to replace the crime of sedition with that of disorder aggravated public.

Speaking to the media before participating this Saturday in the Pontevedra Provincial Council in the round table 'A repression of national identities', within the framework of the conference 'Na loita contra a impunidade', the BNG deputy Olalla Rodil stated that they do not know the text "exactly", but, he added, "what it seems that the Spanish Government is going to formulate is an approval to the rest of the member states of the European Union and our environment".

For his part, the PNV spokesman in Congress, Aitor Esteban, has affirmed that his formation "seems good" to this change. "If a modification is made, we are not going to object and we will try to facilitate everything possible," he insisted.

In any case, Esteban has reproached the Government for dedicating itself to "regulating and seeking solutions to political problems", as well as "having established conditions and channels so that the Catalan people could have expressed themselves, and all those others who want democratically", "all these messes" would not have happened.

Thus, he has criticized that "what there is is an obsession with fixing punishments and fixing repression." "If it is a political problem, it will never be able to be tackled through criminal channels," said the Basque parliamentarian.

Along these same lines, the former ERC spokesperson in Congress, Joan Tardá, has argued that it is "a step forward and nothing more". "But it is a step", he added, to continue pointing out that he speaks "from the clear knowledge of what repression means", since the ERC general secretary, Marta Rovira, "is in exile".

Likewise, the former parliamentary spokesman for Esquerra in the lower house, has argued that his formation maintains "two clear objectives": "amnesty and reaching an agreement to be able to exercise the right to self-determination through a referendum."

Despite this, he pointed out that ERC has a "very specific and mature" strategy that "values ​​the fact of moving towards a resolution of the conflict." "Everything that allows a process of dejudicialization to evolve is positive," she stated.