The left-wing platform Somar, which aims to return to governing Spain in alliance with the Socialists, on Tuesday defended an amnesty for Catalan independence activists and recalled that the right has even pardoned terrorists in the past.
“Amnesty is recognized in international treaties,” it is accepted “usually throughout Europe,” and “it is a functioning figure in the Spanish legal system,” said MP Enrique Santiago, stressing that it is not even “expressly prohibited by the Constitution.” “, that is, it is the “faculty of the legislator”, that is, the parliament.
Enrique Santiago, secretary general of the Spanish Communist Party and member of Esquerda Unida, one of the 15 left and far-left forces that make up Somar, spoke at parliamentary debates on the leader’s candidacy for prime minister that began on Tuesday in Madrid. Member of the People’s Party (PP, right) Alberto Nunez Feijoo.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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