Bolaños ironically and gives “heartfelt thanks” to the PP for commissioning the amnesty report to the Venice Commission | Spain

Two years later, Félix Bolaños, Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Courts, appeared this Tuesday before the Constitutional Commission of the Senate to explain the general lines of his department. He has done so at his own request, and in a week in which the PSOE and Junts are regarding to agree on the final text of the amnesty law, while the Government defends itself from the opposition’s attacks over the Koldo case. The information published regarding the alleged corruption plot in the purchase of masks has served as PP senators to attack Bolaños during his appearance. Also during the subsequent control session held in the Upper House. To defend himself from the attacks of the right, Bolaños has tried to redirect the discussion towards the pardon measure – which will be approved “soon” –, supported by the conclusions of the draft opinion of the Venice Commission on the amnesty, of which Bolaños He has repeatedly stuck out his chest. “Thank you to the Popular Party and the Senate for requesting this report. “Thank you from the bottom of my heart to the Popular Party,” the minister said ironically in the chamber.

The draft opinion of the Venice Commission—released last Friday—endorses “political reconciliation” as a legitimate objective of amnesties, but points out that the law of the measure favors those prosecuted by the process It has produced a “deep division” in Spanish society and censorship that is being processed urgently. The report was requested by the Senate Bureau, chaired by the PP, to the advisory body of the Council of Europe at the end of December. And the final text will be debated on the 14th.

The president of the Senate, the popular Pedro Rollán, will attend said plenary session, and this Monday he sent a formal letter to the president of said commission, Simona Granata-Menghini. The fourth institution of the State expresses in that letter its “complaint regarding the fact that the Government has leaked said draft to the press.” Popular sources from the Board also assure that they will present allegations to the provisional ruling.

On the other hand, the popular ones accuse the Executive of “manipulating” the meaning of the report, as stated by the spokesperson of the popular parliamentary group, Alicia García, at a press conference. Both popular and socialists convey that the Venice Commission draft supports their arguments in favor of the amnesty, in the case of the PSOE, and once morest it, in the case of the PP, although this Tuesday the main opposition party has not boasted of its content during Bolaños’ appearance at the Constitutional Commission, unlike the minister, and has preferred to focus his attacks on the Koldo case. “Is it because everything was a big joke?” Bolaños mocked, in reference to the meeting between a high-ranking source of the Popular Party and 16 journalists held in mid-February, and in which the PP leadership was open to a pardon. conditioned to Carles Puigdemont.

However, later, during the control session, the PP did ask Minister Bolaños regarding the provisional opinion to insist on the accusations of manipulation by the Government. “They are living a moment of absolute anxiety with water up to their necks. Urgency sometimes leads to an occurrence,” said popular senator Antonio Silván. And he added that the opinion criticizes the “very serious political, legal and judicial, institutional, academic and above all social division” caused by the amnesty. Bolaños has doubted Silván’s “reading comprehension” and has reiterated his arguments. “They went to Venice for wool and came back very shorn. Now they avoid the topic [de la amnistía] because they don’t know how to get out. They avoid it because now we know what Feijóo really thinks.”

The Popular Party reformed the Senate regulations to stop the urgency of the amnesty law proposal when it enters the Upper House and thus postpone its final approval for as long as possible. In this way, its processing in the Senate will take two months instead of 20 days. Regarding this delaying maneuver, Bolaños has asked the PP to cease its “confrontation” and not torpedo the course of the law in the Upper House by appealing to the “reconciliation” that in his opinion the entry into force of said law in Catalonia implies.

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In another question, this time directed to the first vice president, María Jesús Montero, regarding the Koldo case, The PP has raised the tone even further. “There are no minutes, there are no complaints, there are no inspections (…) there is only a group of partners who have traveled in that car [en referencia al Peugeot de Pedro Sánchez] “It smells like chorizo ​​and fruit,” said popular senator Salvador de Foronda.

Montero has disgraced the fact that the PP uses the words of the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, once morest the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez — “I like fruit,” she said, something that the socialists consider a clear allusion to the insult “motherfucker”-. “You use insults to address the President of the Government using an expression of Mrs. Ayuso that you do not condemn. It was a serious insult to Mr. Sánchez’s mother, and you repeat it over and over once more whenever you have the opportunity,” indicated the first vice president.

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