The General Court of the European Union held this Wednesday “inadmissibleThe appeal presented by the former Catalan president Carles Puidgemont against the decision of the European Parliament of not letting him participate in the first plenary session of the legislaturein July 2019.
Catalan Carles Puigdemont leaves the leadership of his party
After the European elections of 2019, they were elected in Spain three Catalan pro-independence deputies.
All three were prevented from attending the session. inauguration of the legislature of the European Parliament in Strasbourg: Carles Puidgemont and Toni Comín for not having the necessary accreditation, which they would have to raise in Madrid, and Oriol Junqueras for being imprisoned in Spain.
The General Court concluded this Wednesday that “the inability of the candidates to assume their functions, exercise their mandates and occupy their seats in Parliament does not come from the refusal of the former President of Parliament in recognizing them as deputies to the European Parliament, but in the application of Spanish legislation, as reflected in the communications of the Central Electoral Board of June 17 and 20, 2019, in relation to which the former president of the Parliament and, in a way, more generally, Parliament did not have any kind of discretion”.
Puidgemont, Leading figure in the 2017 Catalan secession attempt and accused by the Spanish justice as a result of such an act, you can still appeal this decision before the highest court, the Court of Justice of the EU.
Source: Observadora
