Former ministers, former presidents of Congress and the Senate and former senior officials of the PSOE and the PP have signed a manifesto against the amnesty and the investiture pacts of Pedro Sánchez in which they consider that they represent “a fracture of basic principles of the rule of law”.The text has been signed by eighteen ministers, most of them from the PP and UCD, but also including socialists such…

“The Government talks about “concord” and what it generates is discord, promoting its amnesty against half of the country”, explains El Mundo in its editorial today, entitled “A monument to the arbitrariness of power”. And it explains that “The Amnesty Bill registered by the Socialist Group in Congress is the greatest example of arbitrariness and the consecration of institutional lies that our country has known in recent decades. The primary…

Fernando González Urbaneja | If we look at the first versions of the PSOE-Junts agreement, we are faced with a historic event that aims to resolve a conflict that dates back three hundred years. An agreement drawn up on the basis of mistrust between the parties and full of misgivings and more than a few ambiguities. The supporters of the agreement, in their first approximations, say that all’s well that…

The pact reached between the PSOE and Junts for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez involves a cession of the socialists in everything demanded by the Catalan ex-president Carles Puigdemont, fugitive from justice. It includes an international mediator who “has the functions of accompanying, verifying and monitoring the negotiation process and the agreements” and will grant amnesty for crimes related to the procés since 2012, before the November 9th consultation in…