Independence focuses on the Supreme you blame for the blockade of amnesty | News from Catalonia
The reproach of Catalan independence has anchored in the Supreme Court and against its facade they replace all criticisms of obstacles to the effectiveness of the amnesty law. « The problem is not the constitutionality of the amnesty, but the rebellion of the Supreme Court, » Josep Rius, spokesman for Junts Per Catalunya, said Monday. Esquerra Republicana demands its “absolute” and immediate application in the causes of the Proces and describes as « inadmissible » the « derives » of the Supreme. The rejection against the court chaired by María Isabel Perelli Doménech emerges after she transcended The Paper of the Constitutional Court That, in response to a resource of the PP, it rejects that the law violates the Constitution. The problem is that the text, which will be discussed by the ten magistrates, ignores the Gordian knot of the legal shock: the amnestiable assumptions of embezzlement.
Both Junts and ERC have been waiting for months for the amnesty deployment of full effects and fix the situation that their respective leaders, Carles Puigdemont and Oriol Junqueras live. He Expresident continues to live in Belgium for risk to be arrested if he returns to Spain and who was his Vice President He cannot exercise as an electoral candidate – not as a university professor – because he still drags an disqualification. All this despite a year since The Congress of Deputies approved a rule That, supposedly, it should be used to clean the judicial file of those prosecuted for the events of October 2017.
« The Supreme Court has tried to boycott the law from day one, » Josep Rius criticized on Monday, after a meeting of the Junts dome in Barcelona. The party that commands Carles Puigdemont ruled out any comment on how relations with the PSOE are and did not even carry the inks against the government by knowing that the Prosecutor’s Office of the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) opposes the pardon to Laura Borràs, former president of the formation, which is sentenced to four and a half years in jail for chopping public contracts to benefit an acquaintance of his.
ERC also had been putting the focus on the Supreme. Last week, coinciding with the anniversary of the approval of the norm, Junqueras himself qualified the non -application of the law as « An unheard of judicial rebellion in any approved European democracy ». The leader of the Republicans, in an article published on Tuesday in this newspaper, sees in the presentation of the TC « a first step » in the battle against « the most reactionary sectors within the Spanish judiciary sabote a law legitimately approved by the legislative power. »
National spokeswoman ERC, Isaac Albert, lamented on Monday to leaked the text of the presentation, but recovered criticism of the Supreme Court for being « twisting what the law says and breaking in a manifest manner what the legislator proposed and what the legislator pursues. » Within the ranks of the Republicans, they accept that the Constitutional cannot enter the bottom of the matter on embezzlement; Therefore, even if the law adjusted to law declares, that does not imply forcing that Supreme’s magistrates fragment their current rejection of applying it to Junqueras and Puigdemont.
Both parties, whose support to the government depends in part of the amnesty, have always said that they are willing to bring the norm to the European justice, that they do not see as politicized as the Spanish. The Constitutional Judgment, to leave as it is, will not allow, for the moment, that the Juns leader can return to Spainbecause that is pending that the Constitutional also resolves the appeal for amparo presented from the own Expresident On the fact that the Second Court Chamber discards apply the amnestiable assumptions of embezzlement.
That resource is in the tail behind the 20 presented against the law agreed between the independentists and the PSOE. ERC shows sure that the Second Supreme Chamber, chaired by Manuel Marchena, would reach the point of raising a preliminary ruling to the Court of Justice of the European Union (TJUE), which will also expand the times. A very uncertain calendar that jums the juns plans that its leader could return this summer to Spainas usually repeated. Three years after the next Catalan elections, Junqueras may also not be able to be the presidential of his training. On Raül Romeva, Dolors Bassa and Jordi Turull also falls the penalty of disqualification for embezzlement.
