Kuka Gamara, the PP’s deputy director for institutional recovery, considers the European Union’s President of the European Court of Justice to have recognized the amnesty law as “violating the rule of law”.
“The Attorney General has been clear and forceful in speaking out and warning about the violation of the rule of law principles in this law, and this is extremely serious,” Gamarra said in a statement to reporters in the parliamentary hall.
Specifically, the CJEU’s Advocate General concluded that some of the provisions of Catalonia’s amnesty law for Proce leaders (such as the two-month period for determining whether this rule applies to a case) may be inconsistent with regional law. However, that reasoning excludes that the processing corresponds to a “self-amnesty”, conflicts with EU law on the fight against terrorism, or affects EU financial interests.
“We are talking about a law that is self-pardoning.”
Gamarra said the amnesty law was “immoral” because it was “an instrument to buy investiture rights” from Sánchez and “has been used exclusively for the purpose of remaining in power” even after “losing the election.” “We are talking about a law that means self-amnesty,” he said.
In this sense, he said, they were “not faced with the means of seeking coexistence, but rather of expediency,” which he said was “always articulated as a means of achieving investiture in exchange for laws that grant immunity and impunity to those who violate our rule of law.”
He made it clear that he would have to wait for the EU Court of Justice’s decision, but suggested that the Attorney General would “re-ratify this law as potentially violating the rule of law” and that “Article 2 of the Treaty could be triggered”. In his opinion, the Attorney General also “supports” “all actions taken by the Spanish judicial system.”
He stressed that “Spain cannot approve legislation that violates the rule of law in any field” and noted that “today” there has been “important progress” as the “headline of the Attorney General’s press release” is “sufficiently serious and strong” in “warning of violations of the rule of law by Spanish law”.
“The only thing that is valid here is the CJEU ruling.”
Asked what he thought about the Attorney General’s statement that the Regulation appears to have been approved in the real context of political and social reconciliation, does not amount to self-amnesty and has no impact on the EU’s economic interests, Gamarra asserted that this is a “report” and that we must wait for the court’s decision.
He added that “all that matters here is the CJEU’s judgment” and argued that the Attorney General’s report was “clear and strong” in “warning of the breaches of the rule of law principles in the Act”, which he considered “the most serious”.
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