Muscat (Oman) (EFE)
In his opinion, this return is related to Puigdemont’s aspirations before the elections to the European Parliament that will be held next year.
Ponsatí returned to Spain on Tuesday, was arrested and released hours later five years after fleeing from justice with Puigdemont for their involvement in the independence process.
An implication for which she is currently being prosecuted for disobedience after the accusation of sedition declined as a result of the reform of the Penal Code that reduced the sentences for the pro-independence leaders.
Sánchez, in an informal conversation with the journalists covering his trip to China, with a previous stopover in Oman, said that the images of the former Catalan minister’s return to Spain are defined by themselves.
He has not wanted to relate it to an attempt by Junts, the Puigdemont and Ponsatí party, to seek a confrontation with ERC before the municipal elections on May 28, but he has linked it to a movement by the former president before the 2024 European elections.
He has stressed that if Puigdemont were to follow in Ponsatí’s footsteps and return to Spain, he would have to render an account before the Justice, in reference to the fact that he is still being prosecuted for a crime of embezzlement that carries a prison sentence.
In any case, the President of the Government believes that these are recurring themes more from the past than from the present and future for Catalan society itself.
In line with this, he has reiterated that the current situation in Catalonia has nothing to do with the one he found when he came to the Government in 2018, both socially and in the relationship between the pro-independence parties since there is division between them.
That is why he assures that time is giving the reason for the policy of coexistence and reunion that his Government is promoting, a bet that he has said is clearly a winner.
Sánchez has referred to the electoral expectations of May 28 in Barcelona to ensure that the PSC candidate Jaume Colboni has a good chance of winning the mayoralty
Before these elections, he explained that he is going to throw himself into acts in support of the socialist candidates throughout Spain and that he has reserved enough space on his agenda for this.