Ciudadanos assumes that the PSOE offered "privileges" to Puigdemont and points to the "eloquent silence" of the Government

MADRID, 31 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The deputy secretary general of Ciudadanos, Edmundo Bal, has described this Monday as "eloquent" the silence of the Government before the declarations of Carles Puigdemont, who has assured that members of the PSOE have generated "expectations of good treatment", and that leads him to to take for granted that "privileges" were offered to the former Catalan president who fled from the Spanish Justice.

Specifically, Puigdemont assured on Sunday on his Twitter social network account that, during the five years he has been living in Belgium, he has received visits from members of the PSOE on several occasions to generate "expectations of good treatment, via reform of the Penal Code and a pardon, as long as he agreed to appear before the Supreme Court".

Before the media, Bal stated that the Government "continues to work against the good name of Spain" and "against the equality of citizens", while detailing that these "privileges" would be aimed at reducing penalties for crime of sedition in the Penal Code, which would be "à la carte", and, once judged, "treat him with affection", that is, "pardon him".

The also 'orange' deputy spokesman in Congress has taken advantage of his speech to also attack the Minister of the Presidency, Relations with the Courts and Democratic Memory, Félix Bolaños, on account of the words of the current Catalan president, Pere Aragonès, who has days assured the existence of an agreement with the Executive to "break" the sentence of 25 percent of Spanish in Catalan schools.

Citizens requested the appearance of Bolaños to give explanations about the agreement reached at "the blackmail table", but the Congress Table has asked the party to reformulate its request, since a member of the central Executive cannot appear to account for a matter that is outside its competence, such as the declarations of a regional president.

"Through a technicality they have rejected it," Bal insisted, confirming that Ciudadanos has reformulated the object of the appearance so that Bolaños "counts if it is true that he is a necessary collaborator of the breach of the rights that the Catalan justice recognizes" .

Along these lines, he pointed out that, "in any other country", the citizens "would believe the Government" and not Puigdemont and Aragonès, "but the way the legislature is going", with "the pardons that have already been granted, with (Pedro) Sánchez saying that he was not going to be able to sleep without agreeing with Podemos" and other examples, "the problem is that we suspect that they are both right".

Thus, he has rejected that "it seems that the Government understands that justice is not the same for everyone" and has disfigured that there is a "privileged" one for those who may become "important" to keep Sánchez in La Moncloa. "He (Bolaños) will have to come to explain himself," she stressed.