Llop defends the usefulness of pardons for prisoners of the 'procés' and says that the Government is going to wait for the decision of the TS

MADRID, 13 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Minister of Justice, Pilar Llop, has defended this Monday the usefulness of the pardons granted to the prisoners of the 'procés', for which the Government is going to wait for the decision of the Supreme Court (TS) on the appeals presented against the measure of grace.

For Llop, the pardons have "lowered the tension" in Catalonia and have made citizens "more relaxed thinking about other things." In addition, he has insisted before the possibility that the ruling of the TS can revoke them that the Government acted around the principles of proportionality, justice, equity and maintenance of coexistence.

Although at first the Supreme indicated that the appellants -among them PP, Vox and Ciudadanos- were not empowered to take this legal action due to lack of legitimate interest, the court has now ensured that, given the discrepancies, what is pertinent is admit said resources, which implies that it will study them to rule on the merits of the matter.

"We are going to wait," said the head of Justice in an interview on Radiocable, collected by Europa Press. Likewise, she has pointed out that the Supreme Court will only be able to analyze the elements of form and not of substance because the latter correspond to the "political opportunity" that a government has when granting the measure of grace.

Llop has explained that what happened so that the court has changed its criterion for admitting appeals in "just three months" is the modification of the composition of the Chamber. In this context, it so happens that the five magistrates that make up that section of the Third Chamber have changed during this time. Two of the three judges who voted to reject the appeals --Segundo Ménendez and Ángeles Huet-- have passed to other sections, while the two who advocated admitting them, Fernando Román and Wenceslao Olea, have remained.

However, he has maintained that the Government acted within the "framework in which State policy should govern" which is what the Executive applies, in his opinion, and added that he would like the Popular Party to also be an "opposition of the State and not against the State".