The European Parliament will ask the Government of Spain for explanations for the amnesty law after the complaint made, among others, by Rosa Diez. The decision was made after holding the Petitions Commission, chaired by the popular Sorrows Montserrat.
In that forum, 8 citizen petitions were debated this Tuesday denouncing that the amnesty is an attack on the rule of law in Spain and the EU. Among the petitioners are Rosa Díez, from Unión78; Juan Carlos Girauta, from PieEnPared; Teresa Freixas of Citizens pro Europe; Elda Mata, from Catalan Civil Society; and Hugo Escarpa, from S’ha Finish!
After listening to these associations, the Commission has decided to keep the petition open and send it to the Committee on Civil Liberties and the Committee on Economic Affairs for your study. In addition, he will ask the Government of Pedro Sánchez to report on the legislative process to which the amnesty law is now being subjected.
From the PP they explain that the Commission “follows this matter very closely and will determine if it complies with the EU.” On behalf of the EPP, the MEP intervened Rosa You will bewho has denounced that “the amnesty violates all the principles that democracy entails and is contrary to the charter of fundamental rights of the Union and, therefore, the intervention of the European Union is absolutely necessary to defend our values of democracy, “Equality, justice and the rule of law. The future of Europe is at stake.”
You will be stressed that the law is an attack on the EU and it undoubtedly violates the separation of powers, in a context in which judges are threatened by the institutions with investigative commissions and are attacked personally, as the PP has denounced before the EU. The MEP regretted that the amnesty, processed urgently and without the reports of the advisory bodies, will erase as many crimes as fugitive from justice Carles Puigdemont requests. “You cannot market the rule of law and put it at the service of personal interest.”
The MEP has also intervened Javier Zarzalejos, who has reproached the socialists for defending that the amnesty has been used in other EU countries. Furthermore, he stressed that “it is the only amnesty that cancels responsibility for crimes against the rule of law and crimes of corruption and terrorism, areas in which the EU is focusing its greatest efforts while in Spain they will go unpunished.”
The MEP has also pointed out the seriousness that this amnesty law is going to “cancel the judicial investigation into Russian interference in Spanish democracy linked to the independence process, an interference that the European Parliament has taken as accredited.” Finally, Zarzalejos wanted to make it clear that this amnesty law does not close any conflict, since “the beneficiaries have not shown regret nor have they renounced the unilateral route, but they have assured that they will do it again.
