The national spokesperson of the Popular Party, Borja Sémper, reiterated this Thursday that the amnesty represented an "outrage" aimed at obtaining "political benefit" and warned that its "stigma" will accompany the Government in the coming years, just as, in his opinion, it has done so far.
The Popular leader expressed this in an interview on La Sexta, reported by Europa Press, after the decision of the Constitutional Court to endorse the amnesty for the crime of embezzlement that weighs on the leaders of the 'procés', including the former Catalan president, which will presumably allow the return to Spain of the leader of Junts, Carles Puigdemont.
Regarding the ruling of the Constitutional Court, Sémper pointed out that it did not come as any "surprise" to him because, he said, he already anticipated that the court would rule in this way. However, he expressed his regret that "corruption is amnestied in Spain."
"Honestly, I regret it a lot," he insisted, before emphasizing that in this matter coexist "two planes": on one hand, the judicial procedure, in which the courts issue their resolutions; and, on the other, the strictly political plane.
It is in this latter area where Sémper has focused his criticisms. Thus, he emphasized that "the amnesty, regardless of legal considerations, was an outrage" because it constituted the "attempt to amnesty, among other things, cases of corruption, to obtain a political benefit." "Politically it was unacceptable," he stressed.
In his opinion, the political objective of the measure was so evident that it will become one of the "great stigmas that this government will drag in the coming years and that it has dragged in recent years."