The basic secretary of ERC, Marta Rovira, maintains that she is not going to return to Spain as a result of she has no ensures. The Republican politician who lives in Geneva (Switzerland) the place she fled 5 years in the past following the judicial investigation by the group of the self-determination referendum in Catalonia. Rovira has additionally revealed that she maintained contacts with Podemos ministers of the Government, however not of the PSOE. With the crime of sedition repealed, the Supreme Court has begun the procedures to assessment the sentences of the pro-independence leaders.
Judge Pablo Llarena has prosecuted ERC quantity two for disobedience, a criminal offense that includes solely disqualification sentences however not jail phrases. However, Rovira doesn’t have all of them with him. This was said this Monday in an interview with RAC1 after the reform of the Penal Code. Rovira insists that he has no “ensures to return” or to make the choice instantly.
“I had a criminal offense behind me that meant speedy imprisonment” he acknowledged however believes that “there are nonetheless many inquiries to reply.” He believes that now that the adjustments have been launched within the Spanish legislature, he doesn’t know what the process could be if he have been to testify.
The Republican will wait to see the interpretation that the Supreme Court makes of the reform within the assessment of the sentences of the pro-independence leaders. She assures that there are different “secret causes” that the National Court is investigating, resembling that of the Tsunami Democràtic, which organized the demonstrations when the Procès sentence was revealed. She fears that new folders will seem that incriminate her in new processes past the referendum.
Negotiations with Podemos ministers
When requested if he has held talks with members of the Government within the framework of the negotiation of the Penal Code, Rovira has assured that he has spoken with ministers: “Not everybody desires to choose up the telephone to a fugitive, seditious and independentista. But I’ve spoken with ministers, after all,” he stated.
Asked in the event that they have been from Podemos, she replied that “she absolutely interprets appropriately”, though she has not given names or confirmed if she additionally held conferences in Switzerland. She has denied, nonetheless, these identical contacts with socialist ministers: “For a Spanish elite, I’m banned from doing politics,” she stated.