The PP does not give credibility to the Government denying that there will be no referendum when it has already given them an "amnesty"

Gamarra recalls that in the past the Executive also denied pardons or the elimination of sedition and then ended up doing it

MADRID, 13 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, has assured this Tuesday that the penal reform agreed with ERC "is becoming a de facto amnesty" for the pro-independence leaders who committed crimes and has not given credibility to the words of the Government, flatly denying that there will be no referendum.

"That the government denies it does not have any credibility because it has denied everything and then it has done so," recalling his statements in the past saying that there would be no pardons or that he would not eliminate the crime of sedition. What's more, he recalled that he also said that he would bring former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont to Spain and he will be able to come "laughing at the Spanish."

This has been pronounced after the Minister of the Presidency, Relations with the Courts and Democratic Memory, Félix Bolaños, has responded to the president of ERC, Oriol Junqueras, that a referendum will not be held "neither by the agreed route nor by the unilateral route" because it is contrary to the Constitution and would mean "chronifying" the conflict.

According to Gamarra, ERC is following its roadmap in relation to the referendum and they have "never lied", but the "problem" is that the President of the Government is the one who "facilitates" those steps that the independentistas are taking because he is "disarming" the mechanisms that the State has to "protect itself."

For all these reasons, he has insisted that the government's words do not have credibility and added that the Spanish know that they are being "deceived" and that it is "the prelude to what is going to happen." In his view, this is a sign that democracy is "wounded."

Gamarra has indicated that the steps that Sánchez has taken with sedition and embezzlement are "becoming de facto an amnesty" and has stressed that now the objective of the independentistas is the referendum. In his opinion, no president of the Government of Spain would have agreed to "weaken" the State when there is a "certain threat" of an attack against it as they have announced from the independence movement.

The 'number two' of the PP has stressed that Pedro Sánchez is doing "the complete opposite" of what he promised in the electoral campaign and, therefore, he is "becoming a fraud for his constituents."

Gamarra has strongly criticized that the transactional amendment on the reduction of embezzlement is agreed with ERC, whose leaders have been convicted of these crimes when "it is not just any modification but the delivery of the Penal Code to those who have committed crimes." In addition, he has denounced that with these steps, Sánchez wants to "take over the Judiciary and the highest body of constitutional guarantees."

He also recalled that this penal reform will go to the Senate Plenary on December 22, coinciding with the week in which the General State Budgets are approved. "They are going to win the lottery at the hands of the President of the Government, who eliminates crimes and reduces corruption," he exclaimed, alluding to the pro-independence leaders convicted of the 'procés' or fled from Justice.

For this reason, Gamarra has indicated that the PP continues with the amparo appeal that it will present before the Constitutional Court for the "trampling" that is taking place throughout this parliamentary process. "Everything that we have within our reach and in our hands to be able to defend the separation of powers, we are going to defend it because the Penal Code is not the property of Pedro Sánchez," he added.