@Haydar
“Amnesty is a perfect legal instrument in a democracy”
In what democracy? Our Constitution doesn’t even mention the idea. Lots of lawyers and entire associations of judges, left and right, say it would be illegal. Libertarians say so. A few magnates of the PSOE are saying so even today. Pedro Sánchez himself and lots of his sycophants at the very top (eg, ministers) said there could be no amnesty because it’d be against the law and the Constitution until a few months ago.
“Modern Spain was founded on the base of an Amnesty law”
Very different circumstances. That amnesty was widely understood to be “the last one”. An amnesty was necessary to start from scratch, simply because there was no rule of law at the time (it was autarchy emanating from a coup d’etat).
“There were several cases of ‘tax amnesty’”
Yes. Two by the PSOE and one by the PP. Very different in nature to what is being announced now. And at least one of them was declared illegal by the Constitutional Court.
So what?
“The real reason why the right-wing is protesting is that they lost the elections and now want to divide society”
It’s not “the right-wing” protesting. Puigdemont’s own party is right-of-centre. The Basque separatists of the PNV, who are not protesting, are definitely in the right. Roughly half the country is opposed — and so is part of the moderate right, the centre, and lots of intellectuals and judges.
Pardoning criminals and supporting secession is, by definition, more divisive than applying the law and defending the unity of the country.
/cc @ImperfectIdea @admitsWrongIfProven
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