Page warns Sánchez: "I have questions about the amnesty that I hope have an explanation"

SPAIN / By Cruz Ramiro

“I have questions and doubts about the amnesty that I hope are explained”. This is how the president of Castilla-La Mancha, the socialist Emiliano García Page, spoke this morning, with the shadow of the referendum and the amnesty that the Catalan independentists demand as a toll and price to offer their votes to Pedro Sánchez on the screen that opens after the failed investiture of Alberto Núñez Feijóo.

“Sánchez resists as much as possible to being placed in a straitjacket. I believe in it and I want to trust that the central positions of my party are the defense of the Constitution, which guarantees equality,” proclaimed the socialist from La Mancha.. Page does not hide his discomfort with the political unrest that comes from Catalonia and raised the dilemma of whether it is not “immoral” for the independentists to “vote their apology” and forgive themselves. He also recalled the words of his fellow member, Salvador Illa, socialist candidate for the presidency of the Generalitat, who the day after the elections “marked the limits: neither referendum nor amnesty.”.

The regional president launched a warning to Junts and ERC: “The yellow brick road of the Wizard of Oz, in addition to being tortuous, does not end anywhere and when someone tries to get the right to vote on their own, even if it is to stay as it is, it is already being independent”. “I think that the independentistas are going to have to step back a lot because the consequences of seeing Puigdemont entering and running for elections would have to go through the Constitutional Court,” he added..

Autonomous framework

Catenaccio or closed defense of the State of the Autonomies in the final fireworks of the La Toja Forum Atlantic Link with a marked political character on the closing day and the morbidity of seeing Emiliano García Page —socialist president of Castilla La Mancha— and the leader together of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, in the week of his failed investiture.

They coincided in space and time, but not at the table, since the organization placed them consecutively and not simultaneously. A reflective and quite content Page with some of the proclamations that are already a trademark of the house, participated this morning in the regional table: 40 years of autonomies. Challenges and opportunities, together with the presidents of Galicia, Alfonso Rueda – Feijóo's right-hand man and successor in the Xunta – and Fernando Clavijo, from the Canarian Coalition and current president of the island Government, in a debate led by Rocío Martínez, director of the Foundation Felipe González.

“Buero Vallejo said that in moments of doubt, it is legitimate to doubt what to do.”. What is not legitimate is to doubt what one is. There are people who don't know what it is and that is already more difficult to manage,” Page proclaimed.. “Spain is a nation and that is what is approved in the Constitution. Multi-emotional, what each person wants and how they want to feel,” he said.. “The State has exercised very little, very little, the line of harmonization,” he criticized, to reflect on the differences between powers and autonomies.. “Harmonizations between territories have come from Europe. “There has been more Europe than us so that this doesn't get out of hand and we have 17 states.”.