2023-11-30 18:41:10
“Zero concern.” That is the impression that the Minister of the Presidency and Justice, Félix Bolaños, has gained in his meetings with the Vice President of Values and Transparency, Vera Jourova, and the Commissioner of Justice, Didier Reynders. The socialist has been convinced that the European Commission has no problem with the amnesty law, despite the fact that Reynders sent a letter to the Government in which he asked for explanations about the “scope” of it before it was even in force. presented. Once he has registered in Congress, Bolaños has traveled to Brussels to reassure community officials in the face of the campaign that the right has launched against the law.
“The dialogue will continue with the Spanish authorities,” said the Justice Commissioner, who avoids making further comments until the amnesty law is fully processed in the Cortes. In the plenary session of the European Parliament, he explained that they have to wait for it to be definitively approved to analyze it in light of the “agreements” signed by the PSOE and Junts in which he referred to the lawfare.
“I have to tell you that there is zero concern from the European Commission about the health of the rule of law in Spain. They know that it is a law in accordance with the Constitution, with the law of the EU and with the values of Europe,” the minister said in an appearance before journalists: “It is a law that they know that we are working with a clear objective, which is overcome a conflict that occurred in Catalonia and that affected the rest of Spain and the EU. Catalonia, which was a factor of instability, is today not only the driving force of Spain but of the EU.”
Very good meeting with the new ???????? Justice Minister Bolaños. We took stock of the situation regarding the Council for the Judiciary and the latest developments regarding the amnesty law. The dialogue will continue with the Spanish authorities. pic.twitter.com/8mJGZDjK9V
— Didier Reynders (@dreynders) November 30, 2023
“They have told me that they are receiving different communications from citizens, parties and associations so that they can study and analyze the amnesty law; “But I want to tell you that if I said before that there is zero concern, there is also no doubt that it is an internal matter for Spain,” said Bolaños, who is not concerned by the community government’s conclusions about the text, which he assures is “impeccable.”
He has also assured that the investigative commissions that will be launched in Congress as a result of the agreement with Junts will not serve to amend the judicial system: “These investigative commissions are part of an agreement of political formations and, as has happened Many times, they go parallel to judicial investigations. No commission of inquiry can affect any judicial procedure. There is no commission that can affect the work of judges.” What the minister has pointed out is that if this parliamentary investigation were to learn of any crime, “it would be reported to the judicial authorities.” “The rule of law in Spain works,” he stated.
The minister has cleared up all questions about the holding of a meeting between the socialists and Junts in which they intend to agree on the name of a verifier to follow up on the agreements and he also did not want to comment on the suitability of these meetings being outside of Spain. . He has also justified the opacity in which the negotiations are being buried: “It is a dialogue table between parties, where there will be a companion to facilitate the dialogue. We have applied a maxim that has been discretion during conversations and publicity when there are agreements.”
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