“The judges carried out a hybrid coup”

Puigdemont does not give up and returns to the charge against the Spanish institutions from Brussels. After staging his second escape from Spain on the day of Salvador Illa’s investiture sessionthe leader of Junts is holding on to his political position tooth and nail so as not to lose electoral credit. This time he has published in one of the most recognized media in the European capital, Politico, where he has justified himself through an opinion column: “But because the Supreme Court judges decided to maintain some of the arrest warrants against those who organized the independence referendum of October 1, 2017, This return caused great tension.”

“The fact is that these orders were maintained despite the fact that the Congress of Deputies had approved an Amnesty Law ordering the lifting of all measures that prevented us from exercising our political rights,” he argued. “I have not been condemned,” He continues, “not even tried. I have been elected to the Parliament of Catalonia and I am among the persecuted politicians and activists to whom this amnesty law should apply. But the politicized Second Chamber of the Supreme Court has decided to rebel against a law that he does not like, disobeying a democratic parliament”.

He believes that the judges, once again, are responsible for not applying the law approved by the Lower House and that they have perpetrated a “hybrid coup.” “Judges who subvert the will of the people and annul legislation passed by a democratic government under the pretext of the rule of law. That an amnesty law could not grant amnesties would be absurd anywhere in Europe and yet that is exactly what is happening in Spain,” he said.

Their opinion comes after Junts deputies and senators have submitted a document to the Supreme Court and to the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) in which they incriminated themselves for having “accompanied” to the former president of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont on his brief return to Barcelona on August 8.

The Junts deputies in the Parliament have addressed the letter to the TSJC, while the deputies in Congress and the senators have presented it to the Supreme Court, to explain that they participated in the acts of accompaniment to Puigdemont on his return to Barcelona, ​​where he gave a brief speech to a crowd of faithful in front of the Arc de Triomphe, before fleeing again to Waterloo (Belgium), evading the Mossos to avoid being arrested.

Deputies and senators emphasize the “nonexistence” of facts constituting a crime and denounce that what is “illegal” is not applying the amnesty law “by prevaricating judges,” Junts said in a statement.