The Government is open to improving legislation after the UN resolution on pro-independence politicians

MADRID, 31 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Government claims to respect the resolution of the United Nations Human Rights Committee that has agreed with the pro-independence politicians whose minutes were withdrawn when they were prosecuted by the Supreme Court, and in any case is open to "improving" the legislation to equate it "to the standards of the most advanced".

The UN Human Rights Committee ruled this Wednesday that Spain violated the political rights of former Catalan vice president Oriol Junqueras and former councilors Raül Romeva, Josep Rull and Jordi Turull by suspending them from their public duties after being prosecuted for rebellion, a measure imposed by Spanish law before there is a conviction.

In statements in Congress, the Minister of Transport, the Catalan Raquel Sánchez, has assured that the Government "scrupulously respects all the decisions of the UN human rights committee", but also understands that the judicial resolutions in Spain "are issued adjusted to law and adjusted to law".

In any case, it has shown the Government's willingness to "adhere to that resolution" and to "improve the legislation and make it comparable to the standards of all the most advanced legislation in this regard."

From the pro-independence ranks they have already demanded the reform of the crime of sedition for which the pro-independence politicians were finally convicted, but President Pedro Sánchez said that he does not have a sufficient majority to undertake this modification of the Penal Code, an extreme that his partners in Podemos deny.

The Minister of Transport, who was accompanied by the Secretary of State for Relations with the Courts, Rafael Simancas, did take the opportunity to emphasize that the coalition government "is committed to dialogue" in Catalonia and that it has already "banished the attitude of confrontation that defended the PP".