Óscar Puente: “Terrorist crimes will not be included in the amnesty. It’s a red line.”
The Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Óscar Puente, has stated that only the Constitutional Court will decide whether the future Amnesty law is unconstitutional, despite the report by Congressional lawyers issued on Wednesday that doubted that the text being processed in the Parliament is. Furthermore, he has stated that terrorism crimes will not be covered by the law. “That is a red line,” he stated.
Asked at an economic forum in Madrid if the law should go forward following that report, Puente said that “the law will not go forward if it is unconstitutional, but the Constitutional Court will have to say that.” Regarding Wednesday’s report from the lawyers, he said that it is “one more, I’m not saying it’s not important, but there is another one from three months ago that says the opposite.” “When a law does not say something exhaustively, interpretations come in, and those interpretations, especially when it comes to thorny issues, do not usually coincide,” he explained, referring to the fact that the Constitution does not explicitly prohibit amnesties. For this reason, it has been referred to the opinion that the Constitutional Court made at the time. “End of debate.”
Furthermore, he has confirmed that, although he is not in the negotiations on the norm, he trusts what the Minister of Justice and Presidency, Félix Bolaños, says, who has reiterated that terrorism crimes will not be among the amnestiable crimes in the law. “It’s a red line for us,” he said.