I’m not so sure this is so terrible. Preventing further Catalonian separatist sentiment would require some level of reconciliation, and this seems like a good first step. Having Puigdemont as some kind of martyr in Brussels is not a good look for Spain and has only really emboldened the pro-independence parties.
This deal gives Sanchez an excellent angle to force some reconciliatory concessions from the separatists as well. It’s basically killed any chance at a further referendum.
I don’t think so, he failed miserably to the separatists and has done nothing remarkable so far, so he had been rather forgotten; he is not a good martyr.
The media and nationalists focused it on one man, but the amnesty is for thousands of protesters (almost all peaceful) prosecuted for crimes as serious and absurd as rebellion. There is a reason why several human rights organizations have been denouncing for some time that the right to demonstrate is under threat.
I’m not so sure this is so terrible. Preventing further Catalonian separatist sentiment would require some level of reconciliation, and this seems like a good first step. Having Puigdemont as some kind of martyr in Brussels is not a good look for Spain and has only really emboldened the pro-independence parties.
This deal gives Sanchez an excellent angle to force some reconciliatory concessions from the separatists as well. It’s basically killed any chance at a further referendum.
I don’t think so, he failed miserably to the separatists and has done nothing remarkable so far, so he had been rather forgotten; he is not a good martyr.
The media and nationalists focused it on one man, but the amnesty is for thousands of protesters (almost all peaceful) prosecuted for crimes as serious and absurd as rebellion. There is a reason why several human rights organizations have been denouncing for some time that the right to demonstrate is under threat.
Definitely