Felipe González says he will not vote for the PSOE when the amnesty elections are held.

Former Prime Minister Felipe González asserts that in the upcoming elections he will not vote for the PSOE, the party he led for 23 years, for having participated in the "nonsense" of the amnesty law.

González, who gave an interview to Onda Cero, responded this way when asked if the PSOE wouldn't be able to count on his vote in the upcoming elections. The former PSOE secretary general replied "yes, yes," adding that "that doesn't mean I'm going to vote" for the PP.

He has insisted that he will not vote for the PSOE or any party that has approved the amnesty law that the Constitutional Court (TC) endorsed today , asserting that the law is "absurd" and a "disgrace" for any democrat.

"If this goes through as the Prime Minister (Pedro Sánchez) has predicted, no one who participated in this will ever count on me, which is asking for forgiveness from those who have committed this outrage. It's not forgiving them, it's asking for their forgiveness. It's the State that submits," he said in an interview on 'Más de uno'.

However, he asserted that he would not "under any circumstances" consider voting for the PP, "among other reasons" because he doesn't see them "proposing a national project." "I see Feijóo making a name for himself with Mazón or with Abascal himself yesterday," he cited as an example to justify his refusal.

González called the "self-amnesty" a "shame" and criticized Sánchez for daring to announce the results yesterday before the Constitutional Court vote . "I wouldn't have dared," he said.

González criticized Sánchez's remarks at a press conference in The Hague following the NATO summit, when he said that the Constitutional Court's endorsement is a "vindication" of his "policy" and "an essential element for transformation and peaceful coexistence between citizens and territories."

"I heard the Prime Minister say at the NATO summit last night that the ruling on the constitutionality of the amnesty was already in. I wouldn't have dared to say at this hour what the outcome of the vote would be; it seems to me to be a complete lack of respect for the Constitutional Court," he criticized.

In his criticism of the amnesty, Felipe González lamented that all the work the Socialists have done over the years "has been undone like a sugar cube by an absolutely unacceptable phrase, saying that we must make a virtue out of necessity," uttered by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez in his defense of the amnesty.

"Where is the virtue," González added, considering that Sánchez showed "absolute disrespect for the Constitutional Court" by "jumping the ruling." According to the former president, "the debate is about whether self-amnesty is possible" because "the people who will benefit," he added, drafted the text of the law.