Junts thanks the Government for its "payment in advance" after asking Europol to disassociate separatism and terrorism

Junts rejoices after the Government has asked Europol to disassociate the Catalan independence movement from terrorism, as Carles Puigdemont demanded to negotiate the investiture of Pedro Sánchez.

After learning through EL MUNDO that the Ministry of the Interior demanded on Wednesday by letter to the director of the European organization a “rectification” of the report in which Catalan secessionism is classified as “ethno-nationalist and separatist terrorism”, the post-convergents celebrated “to be charging in advance” for his eventual support for the re-election of the socialist candidate.

This was stated by the Junts deputy in Parliament, Joan Canadell, registered in the most radical faction of the party.. “A grievance that was an indecency has been resolved”, applauded Marta Madrenas, member of the Junts executive and parliamentarian of the successor formation of Convergència in Congress. “The Spanish Government meets President Puigdemont's demands,” stated the party's organizational secretary, David Torrents.

Meanwhile, the fugitive demanded a “total amnesty” for the “Catalan patriots” of the CDR, once the Government's movement was known.. “Their crime is none other than being independentists and for that reason they were imprisoned and are awaiting trial for terrorism.”. “It is one more trial against the Catalan people,” he considered.

ERC tried to sneak into the post-convergent celebration through the Minister of the Interior of the Generalitat, Joan Ignasi Elena, who recalled that in July he already demanded from his counterpart in the Government, Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska, “an immediate rectification” of the Europol report. .

Constitutionalism responds

The constitutionalist reaction to this new transfer of Sánchez to Junts to grease the negotiation of his investiture was channeled through the European Parliament.

The vice president of the Committee on Liberties of the Chamber and European parliamentarian of Ciudadanos, Maite Pagazaurtundua, demanded in a letter to the director of Europol that she ignore the Spanish Executive and “maintain the control and terminology that has been used until now on the violent expressions of the independence movement.” Catalan”.

Pagazaurtundua clarified to Catherine De Bolle that the Socialist Government's maneuver responds to the desire to comply with one of the conditions demanded by Puigdemont to support Sánchez as a candidate for La Moncloa, which “means undervaluing and putting at the service of partisan interests the “professional work carried out by the State Security Forces and Bodies”. “It adds to the use of other powers of the State for the same operation of satisfying a fugitive from Justice and a gigantic operation of impunity.”

The PP, for its part, also denounced to the EU “a new partisan use of the institutions” by the Spanish Government to “stay in power.”. The spokesperson for the Popular Party in the European Parliament, Dolors Montserrat, yesterday registered a question addressed to the Union's Home Affairs Commissioner, Ylva Johansson, to find out what her opinion is of the request from the acting Executive of Spain.

“The only reason they ask for it is to stay in power,” Montserrat advanced.. Meanwhile, the leader of the party in Catalonia, Alejandro Fernández, stated: “This new transfer is a clear invitation to separatism to 'do it again' but this time with total impunity.”

«That it is the Government of Spain itself that requests the exclusion of violent separatism from the Europol report on extremism and terrorism is a new betrayal of the Socialist Party, another one, to all Spaniards, especially those who suffer daily threats and the violence of separatism,” added the general secretary of Vox and leader of the party in Catalonia, Ignacio Garriga.

In parallel, the head of the Vox delegation in the European Parliament, Jorge Buxadé, stressed that his party requested “the inclusion of violent separatist groups on the list of terrorist organizations given the Europol report that identifies violent secessionism as a risk.” for the security of Europe. Report that the Government now asks to amend.