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A fugitive from justice blackmails the President of the Government of Spain and the entire country in the European Parliament

What you just read in the headline is true, humiliating and embarrassing. But before I explain it, let me give you some facts.

On October 30, 2017, the former President of the Regional Government of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, left Spain three days after the failed declaration of independence of Catalonia and his dismissal in application of article 155 of the Spanish Constitution, and in the face of the imminent complaint from the State Attorney General’s Office for rebellion, sedition and embezzlement. Since then Puigdemont has resided in Waterloo in Belgium.

Since that day, he has been subject to an international search and arrest warrant issued by the Supreme Court for the aforementioned crimes. In the last elections to the European Parliament held on May 26, 2019, in which Carles Puigdemont stood, he obtained his seat in the European Parliament.

Yesterday Pedro Sanchez attended a session in the European Parliament, in which everyone present could hear how Carles Puigdemonto blackmailed the Spanish President from the speakers’ gallery by overthrowing his presidency if he did not fulfill each and every one of the “promises” that he made. had made him to comply with his demands.

Sánchez and Puigdemont have met in the hemicycle of the European Parliament, being the first time that both see each other after PSOE and Junts agreed on an Amnesty Law that will free those involved in the process from all guilt, in exchange for the investiture of the socialist leader , after having eliminated the crime of sedition and conveniently retouched the crime of embezzlement contemplated until then in our legal system.

The former president of Catalonia and MEP warned the President of the Government that “mistrust arises from non-compliance” in his speech in the European Parliament this Wednesday, where he also complained about not being able to use Catalan in the European Parliament.

Some of the phrases that the Catalan said to the President were:

• “Europe’s problem has never been promises, Europe’s problem is the fulfillment of those promises,” the leader of Junts said.
• “Because non-compliance gives rise to distrust, distrust that can put even a project as solid as the European Union at risk,” he then warned.
• Furthermore, Puigdemont has complained about having to express himself in Spanish and not being able to do so in Catalan and therefore not being able to exercise his “fundamental rights” because “that Europe of the people that you had to defend during your presidency does not include us if we speak in Catalan.” , has reproached him as if the fault were his, when the ban came from the Presidency of the Parliament itself because several European countries opposed it.
• «Our freedom of expression in this House is worth less than yours. President Sánchez, opportunities must be taken advantage of when they occur. “If they let themselves pass them by out of fear or inability, the consequences are never pleasant,” he concluded in his message to the European Parliament.

Now it seems that the President of the Government Pedro Sánchez, and the former Catalan president and MEP on the run from Spanish justice Carles Puigdemont are going to meet outside of Spain and without the presence of a mediator. This was stated this Thursday by the general secretary of Junts, Jordi Turull, in an interview on Ràdio4 and La2. “This is about normalizing the relationship between both presidents,” he said, without specifying the date of the meeting or the place where it will be held. Turull pointed out that this is a meeting to delve into the negotiation and “deepen the resolution of the political conflict”, and added: “This is not about photographs.”

This could only happen to us Spaniards. That a fugitive from justice has been proclaimed as a parliamentarian in the European Parliament representing Spain can only happen where the most exquisite democracy exists. That this parliamentarian is allowed to defend outside Spain the breakup of the Spanish State while he represents it, and that nothing happens, only happens where there is a democracy exquisitely respectful of the use of the word.

That, taking advantage of the Tribune, an entire country and its government are blackmailed to make it fall if the promises that Pedro Sanchez should never have made in exchange for the 7 votes he needed to be named President are not fulfilled, is an enormous outrage, and it yesterday is part of the consequences

I don’t know how all this will end, but it’s not going to end well. This will have a high cost for the Country. Our credibility as a country on the international stage is at stake, as is our stability, and that will cause great damage to our economy and harm our growth at a time of very important global changes that pose challenges that require all of our efforts, which are being wasted on political issues, all because a man on the run from justice has a fit of horns, to blackmail us all.

El artículo se puede leer en español en este enlace.