Puigdemont, free again | Opinion

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On September 23, they arrested the former president of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, at the doors of the plane, when landing at the airport in Sardinia, Italy. Since June 30, the three Catalan MEPs have been without parliamentary immunity (Puigdemont, Comín and Ponsatí) as decided by the European Parliament. But the community judge considers that none of the three MEPs, who remain requested by the Spanish justice, is in danger of being arrested and handed over to the Spanish authorities because the European arrest and surrender orders issued by the Spanish Supreme Court are currently suspended , waiting for the European court to resolve the conflict between the Spanish and Belgian justice.

Puigdemont is being held in Italy due to police coordination (Italian and Spanish) and a desire to imprison him as part of the campaign to try the independentists. They release him on September 24 in the afternoon. What has been repeated is: detention, unbridled euphoria in Madrid, European judicial setback and political defeat in Catalonia. These judicial setbacks happened to them in Belgium on November 3, 2017; in Germany on March 25, after the October 1 sentence (which imprisoned Catalan politicians in Spain for putting ballot boxes); In 2019 Judge Pablo Llarena sent a European and international Euro order for the third time and now again in Italy. Every time Judge Llarena sent the Euro-orders, then withdrew them or they came to nothing.

Until now, the Spanish State wasted no time in bringing the independentistas to trial without clear evidence, even so, taking them to prison. Today there are still about 3,000 causes against Catalan citizens for October 1 and the demonstrations that followed in those days. Along with this, there are 40 involved in a procedure of the Court of Accounts (a body flawed with legal clarity and with hereditary charges) that seeks to recover public money allegedly embezzled by the Generalitat in the international promotion of the process between 2011 and 2017; but in reality the only thing he seeks is to continue chastising Catalan politicians, leading them to financial ruin.

It would be very naive to think that Spanish justice makes a fool of itself so much. We can clearly think of another goal. Let’s not forget that the dictator died in his bed, and that many of the state agencies were never purged. Here we can think of two issues that come together to understand the reason for these senseless attempts by the Euroorders. Clearly, the first is against the independentistas, and the other is Pedro Sanchez.

Not for nothing, Minister Carmen Calvo and deputy head of government affirmed: “that this situation does not affect the approval of the budgets that Spaniards need so much.” Without the support of Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC, the party that governs in coalition in Catalonia), it is likely that they will not be approved and that it will be a pressure to advance general elections in Spain. Thus being charged, what was done by Pedro Sánchez to Mariano Rajoy in 2018 -the conservative president fell due to the motion of censure promoted by the PSOE-. On the other hand, it is difficult for ERC to support a central government that proposes dialogue and wants to imprison Puigdemont, does not stop the other trials and does not dialogue about “amnesty and self-determination.”

This action was to show Pedro Sánchez that there are State structures (such as the judicial and police) that do not respond directly to his orders, and it has nothing to do with the division of powers. That generating more tension in Catalonia is based on removing support for the socialist government, and forcing the PSOE to turn to the right on fundamental rights.

Josep Puig Bóo is Presidente Mutual Catalana

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