United We Can criticizes that Bolaños denies majorities to reform sedition without proposing a specific text

Asens celebrates that the Government and the Govern have "unfrozen" the dialogue table and also welcomes the agreement on Catalan

MADRID, 27 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The president of the parliamentary group of United We Can in Congress, Jaume Asens, considers that "it is not acceptable" that the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, has indicated this Wednesday that there is no majority to reform the crime of sedition without having put on table a concrete proposal to corroborate it.

In this context, he recalled that his group sent a proposal to the Ministry of Justice at the end of 2020 to remove this crime from the Penal Code and that since then he has been waiting for his government partner to rule on the matter and stop making "excuses" .

In any case, he welcomed the fact that legislative reforms such as this can now be resumed within the framework of the agreement reached by the central and Catalan governments for the dejudicialization of the Catalan conflict.

Specifically, he welcomed the fact that both the PSOE and the ERC are now open to the possibility of "harmonizing the Spanish Penal Code with that of the rest of European countries" with a reform that they were initially suspicious of.

"This is not a folder that only affects a group of independentistas, this crime is a relic of the past that, reinterpreted as the Supreme Court has reinterpreted it, poses a threat to the right to protest and to demonstrate by whoever exercises it," he said. argued.

In any case, Asens considers it "good news" that the two governments have resumed dialogue, leaving behind the "distrust" that caused the 'Pegasus case'. "It is an important meeting, a course is set and the commitment of the investiture bloc is reaffirmed", he congratulated, yes, regretting that Junts continues to be absent from that forum: "There is no alternative to dialogue and we are concerned that within the government Catalan there are those who do not contribute to finding a solution", he slipped.

Asens has also highlighted the agreement for the promotion and protection of Catalan sealed this Wednesday in Moncloa. "It is good news that the language leaves the courts and is shielded in the classrooms," he said, welcoming the fact that the Executive supports the regulatory framework approved in Parliament and that for "the first time a Government in Spain that is an ambassador of its linguistic wealth in the European Parliament".

In this context, he has encouraged the Basque and Galician Governments to also request that the use of their co-official languages ​​be promoted in the plenary session of the European Parliament and for the exercise of the right of petition, as is going to be requested that it be possible to do with the Catalan.

Likewise, he has asked the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to act with "loyalty" and move his colleagues from the European People's Party not to block this initiative at the European Parliament Table to promote the use of Catalan.