ERC wants progress in the reform of the crime of sedition to start negotiating the Budgets

MADRID, 27 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The ERC spokesman in Congress, Gabriel Rufián, has warned this Tuesday that he will not enter into negotiations with the Government on the Budgets for 2023 if steps are not taken to "put justice where there is injustice", implying that they will not do so if There is no progress in the commitment reached with the Executive to "dejudicialize" the Catalan conflict, which goes through a reform of the crime of sedition.

"The PSOE and also United We Can, why not say it, since sometimes they put themselves in profile, they know perfectly well what the ERC is proposing before starting to talk about the content of the Budgets", he commented at a press conference, when asked if they put as a condition to negotiate an agreement on the Housing Law and the reform of the Citizen Security Law, renamed the 'gag law'.

Rufián has made it clear that, for the ERC to support the public accounts, they will have to have an "eminently social" content, but he has stressed that for this prior negotiation the demands that his formation has put on the table must be addressed first.

The spokesman for the pro-independence formation has avoided giving details about their previous requests. "We are not going to verbalize it out of respect for the negotiations," he said, adding that doing so could be used as the "great excuse" for not addressing them.

"It would be about putting justice where there is injustice", he has limited himself to pointing out, emphasizing that the two parties that make up the coalition government "know perfectly well what they have to do". "If they fail to comply, it will be very difficult to start talking about Budgets," she added.

At the end of last July, within the framework of the dialogue table on Catalonia, the central and Catalan governments agreed to promote legislative reforms to "overcome the judicialization" of the political conflict and also its "effects" and expressed their will that these can be approved before the end of the year.

ERC sources have recalled this Tuesday that these legislative reforms, which in principle would affect the crimes of rebellion and sedition, have been on the table for months and that, in addition, they are subject to that calendar set in July.