Bolaños says that they will study the UN resolution on independentists: "The important thing is to overcome the conflict"

MADRID, 2 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Minister of the Presidency, Relations with the Courts and Democratic Memory, Félix Bolaños, assured this Friday that the Government will study the resolution of the UN committee that affects Catalan pro-independence politicians despite not being binding, although he has underlined that "it important is to overcome the conflict" from the dialogue.

In statements to the press after visiting the Council of State, Bolaños stressed that the Executive is going to "read and study" the resolution of the UN Human Rights Committee that rules that Spain violated the political rights of former Catalan vice president Oriol Junqueras and former councilors Raül Romeva, Josep Rull and Jordi Turull by suspending them from their public functions after being prosecuted for rebellion, a measure imposed by Spanish law before there is a conviction.

After emphasizing that "it is not binding", Bolaños has promised to study what the UN says, although he goes on to qualify that for the Government the important thing is that a "new stage" has been opened in Catalonia based on the agreements between the parties to "do real, useful politics" that leads to "overcoming a terrible stage" in the country's history and that "didn't lead anywhere."

Last Wednesday, the Minister of Transport, the Catalan Raquel Sánchez, announced that the Government "scrupulously respects all the decisions of the UN human rights committee", but adding that it also understands that judicial resolutions in Spain "are issued in accordance with law and adjusted to law".

In any case, Raquel Sánchez showed the Executive's willingness to "adhere to that resolution" and to "improve the legislation and make it comparable to the standards of all the most advanced legislation in this regard."

From the pro-independence ranks they demand the reform of the crime of sedition for which the pro-independence politicians were finally convicted. However, President Pedro Sánchez has said that he does not have a sufficient majority to undertake this modification of the Penal Code, an extreme that his partners in Podemos deny.