The Supreme Court has rejected Vox’s attempt to paralyze Pedro Sánchez’s investiture session scheduled for this Wednesday and Thursday. Santiago Abascal’s party has asked, as a precautionary measure, to suspend the investiture as part of the complaint filed on Tuesday against the incumbent President of the Government and the former President of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont, justifying “the appropriateness of the suspension of the parliamentary law appointing the President of the Government.” In a judgment The Criminal Chamber assumes that the complaint has been received and, in turn, appoints Judge Eduardo de Porres as rapporteur. In addition, Vox has a period of five days to submit a special power of attorney stating which people the complaint and the crime are directed against. According to an information release, the court will decide in due course whether the complaint will be allowed to be processed or not.
The Supreme Court ruling is signed by judges Manuel Marchena (President of the Criminal Chamber), Julián Sánchez Melgar, Juan Ramón Berdugo, Carmen Lamela and Eduardo de Porres. The court had to decide on Vox’s application in less than 24 hours, which was somewhat unusual since it was a request for a precautionary measure in the criminal area aimed at suspending a parliamentary decision. When he went to the Supreme Court to file the complaint, Abascal addressed a kind of order to the judges: “We believe that this coup can be stopped in the courts and in the Senate.” And we expect everyone who bears responsibility to do so he fulfills this responsibility.” The Vox boss assured that there are reasons to suspend the investiture and paraphrased the statements of the conservative judicial associations, which have described the PSOE’s agreement with the independents as “the beginning of the end of democracy”: ” “Abolition of the rule of law” or “attack on the separation of powers”, he was convinced that if the judges stick to their statements, “they will use all legal means at their disposal to stop this attack.”
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The court’s decision to dismiss the petition was made before considering whether to allow the complaint to proceed. The court did not set a deadline for resolving this matter and only asked Vox to submit additional documents within five days. The complaint was filed over allegations of bribery, concealment or collaboration with terrorism, usurpation of judicial functions and prohibited negotiations on behalf of public officials. The document submitted to the Criminal Chamber attributes Sánchez to “actions manifestly contrary to the duties inherent in his position,” which “includes acquiescence to the will of those who have committed or are being prosecuted for the most serious crimes against the Constitution and the legal order.” .” .” According to the complaint, Sánchez “as President of the Spanish Government committed to the dismemberment of Spain’s national unity (referendum or consultation, which also contradicts the Constitution on a non-existent right to self-determination denied by permanent and denied citizens becomes). continuous constitutional doctrine, which, as is well known, does not need citation), to the collapse of the separation of powers, to the destruction of the equality of Spaniards and the democratic system.
The complaint contains an account of the proceedings, the October 2019 Supreme Court ruling and some of the other judicial derivatives opened in the National Court or Catalan courts. The text focuses in particular on the Democratic Tsunami case, in which Judge Manuel García-Castellón identified Puigdemont and the Secretary General of the ERC, Marta Rovira, as people under investigation for a terrorist crime. “The mere indication of knowledge of the acts would be enough to take action, and even more so the confirmation of sharing and cooperation in achieving the goal of the terrorist attacks, which implies the intense involvement of the separatist leaders with whom they collaborate, “implicit in these terrorist attacks.” agrees. The PSOE would be enough to provoke legal action to prevent these pacts from having any effect,” the complaint says.
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