Spanish Constitutional Court Affirms Legality of Most Key Amnesty Law Provisions

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To the great dam of the People's Party, which has the wind in the polls, the Constitutional Court considered that the amnesty of 13 Catalan separatist leaders "responds to the need to improve living together".

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The Constitutional Court will endorse the bulk of the law that forgives all those convicted for the preparation and execution of the process that led to the unilateral laws of disconnection and the celebration of the illegal consultation of October 1, 2017. The paper says that it does not go to assess whether it was a political payment from the government to Junts to govern, but assures at the same time that the law will cure the social fracture…

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Madrid, 2 Jun (EFE).- The first ruling of the Constitutional Court (TC) endorses the main aspects of the amnesty law, although it does not pronounce on the crime of embezzlement that affects Carles Puigdemont, as published today by several media. In this way, the paper elaborated by the vice president of the TC, Immaculate ... Read more

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The Spanish TC actually acts as a "guardian of the political order" and not as an interpreter of the Constitution, resolving the conflicts between the socialist flock (friend) and its political adversaries (enemy)

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What Count Pumpido and Montalbán are going to do, the rapporteur, supported by the FSLN majority that makes up the court, we all know: To say that it is constitutional something that is a flagrant violation of the text and spirit of the Constitution. Amnesty law dictated by the Catalan separatists as “payment” to the investiture [...]