Government spokesman does not clarify if there were contacts with Puigdemont but emphasizes that he must be accountable to the Justice

He equates the PP with the fled, assuring that "they were not able to maintain" or "put the constitutional order at risk"

MADRID, 31 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The spokeswoman, Isabel Rodríguez, has stated that the former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont must return to Spain to comply with the Justice as he is accused of the crime of sedition, after alluding to the fact that he has maintained contacts with PSOE officials during these years in Belgium.

He has also accused the PP of using him as an "argument of authority" to try to justify his rupture of the negotiations on the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ).

And in this sense he has criticized that it is "eloquent" that the popular and Puigdemont resort to each other to try to justify their positions.

This is how she spoke at a press conference after the Council of Ministers when asked about the recent statements by Puigdemont, who has maintained that during these years he has received "people from the PSOE" and that they promised him "expectations of good treatment, via reform of the Penal Code, and a pardon", although always conditional on his appearing before the Supreme Court.

Rodríguez has referred to the former Catalan president as "that man who has fled the country" and has asserted, so that "there is no doubt" that the Government's position is clear and emphatic: "he has to come to Spain to comply with the justice and accountability.

Of course, he has criticized that "it is not acceptable" that the PP "uses Puigdemont as an argument of authority, as a new excuse or a new shield of protection against the weakness of not being able to explain to the Spanish why he breaches the Constitution" , referring to the breakdown of negotiations on the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ).

"Inadmissible that those who were not able to maintain or who put the constitutional order at risk on both sides, now have to resort to each other as an argument of authority. It is eloquent," the Executive spokeswoman has settled.

And it is that during various parts of his appearance before the media, Rodríguez has stressed regarding the reform of the crime of sedition that there is nothing new and that the Government has not changed its position.

With this, he alluded to the commitment of the President of the Government at the beginning of the legislature to study the modification of this criminal type, but emphasizing that a majority is required that at the moment, as they observe, does not exist.

And it is that the minister has repeatedly denounced that the issue of sedition is a new "excuse" of the popular and that they are the ones who have changed their criteria, given that the popular spokesperson in Congress, Cuca Gamarra, said few days that this possible modification was not an inconvenience.

In this sense and in allusion to the words of the PP leader, Esteban González Pons, who said this morning that it had been agreed not to touch the sedition, the Government spokesperson replied that those words are a way of "covering their shame", by "manipulating private conversations" in order to hide his "unspeakable" reasons for not renewing the CGPJ.