Robles focuses on the slowness of justice in the ERE and sees "premature" talk about a pardon

MADRID, 28 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, has emphasized this Thursday the judicial slowness in the case of the fraudulent ERE for which the former Andalusian presidents Manuel Chaves and José Antonio Griñán have been convicted and has called it "premature" to speak of the possibility for the government to grant them a pardon.

"When there are these macro-processes with many people involved, it is true that the level of participation and responsibility is not the same," he said in an interview on Telecinco, collected by Europa Press, after the chief executive, Pedro Sánchez, said this Wednesday that in this case "just pay for sinners".

However, Robles has focused on the time these macro-legal processes last. "This would also have to make justice reflect," the minister has influenced processes that she has recalled that have many people "pending decision."

In any case, regarding the specific sentence that condemns Chaves and Griñán, he recalled that only the ruling of the Supreme Court is known, but not the arguments. And it can still be appealed to the Constitutional Court.

For this reason, he has avoided delving into the possible granting of pardons. "Pardons must wait for the appropriate procedural moment to arrive, we cannot talk about something that we do not know if it will occur. It is good to wait for the times," Robles has summoned, expressing his hope that the Constitutional Court will rule more quickly in this case and not delay its decision as much as in other appeals, such as the abortion law, which has been pending for twelve years now.

"Talking about what the government can do when the judicial procedure is still underway is very premature," he insisted. Sánchez also avoided talking on Wednesday about "hypotheses" such as pardon and said that the government will always act "in accordance with the law."