Catalonia sees the end of the tunnel after applying amnesty to almost twenty people facing trial

President Salvador Illa celebrated on Friday, in his mid-term balance just before going on vacation, that the amnesty law is already being applied after the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) ruled that it does not contravene community law. “I have defended from the first day that it be applied in an agile and efficient manner. And I am pleased that some people have benefited,” said the head of the Government.

The Catalan Executive has long claimed that the rule should be enforced to restore political normality after the long and protracted decade of the procés. With the trickle so far of 18 amnestied cases, Catalonia, now yes, sees the end of the tunnel, which will culminate with the return of Carles Puigdemont.

The partial pardon to Laura Borràs and the Budgets.

The cascade of amnestied people has coincided in time with the partial pardon of the Government to Laura Borràs, the former President of the Parliament, sentenced to four years in prison and 13 years of disqualification for slicing contracts. The pardon has meant reducing her prison sentence to two years so that she does not enter prison.

The Executive relies on the fact that it has made this decision by accepting the advice of the High Court of Justice of Catalonia, which considered its own sentence excessive. Junts and the affected person herself insist that the sentence, not amnestiable, always had a clear component of political persecution. And the PP has not been slow to consider the pardon as a first payment on account of a possible support of Junts to the 2027 Budgets.

Pedro Sánchez stated that the partial pardon “has nothing to do with the budgets and with political negotiation”. Miriam Nogueras herself said on the network that her rejection of the accounts is unmovable.