The appeal against the decision was filed by three representatives of the centrist Citizens party and the far-right Vox party Spain’s Supreme Court (SC) has not temporarily suspended the country’s government decision to pardon Catalan politicians convicted of their role in organising the region’s 2017 illegal independence referendum. This was stated in a legal ruling […]
Spanish court does not suspend cabinet decision to pardon Catalan politicians
The appeal against the decision was filed by three representatives of the centrist Citizens party and the far-right Vox party
Spain’s Supreme Court (SC) has not temporarily suspended the country’s government decision to pardon Catalan politicians convicted of their role in organising the region’s 2017 illegal independence referendum. This was stated in a legal ruling circulated on Tuesday.
The appeal against the pardons was filed by three representatives of the centrist Citizens party and the far-right Vox party. The SC “rejected the request of the three leaders of the Citizens party, like Vox, for a provisional suspension of the royal decrees granting pardons” to the Catalan politicians, the court’s press office said.
On 1 October 2017, Catalonia held a vote to secede from the kingdom, with Madrid initially calling the referendum illegitimate and refusing to recognise its results. On 27 October of the same year, Catalonia’s parliament approved a resolution declaring an independent republic. In response, the authorities invoked the previously never-used Article 155 of the constitution, which allowed for limited self-government of the region.
In October 2019, the SC delivered a verdict in the case of the separatist politicians who were involved in organising the referendum, they were sentenced to terms of up to 13 years in prison. Some of those in the case were found guilty of sedition and embezzlement.
Spanish court does not suspend cabinet decision to pardon Catalan politicians
