The leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, has filed a complaint with the Supreme Court against the incumbent government president Pedro Sánchez and the former president of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont for alleged bribery, cover-up or collaboration with terrorism, usurpation of functions of the judiciary and negotiations prohibited for officials.
The complaint also extends to their respective parties, PSOE and Junts, which they have described as “coup organizations”. In its letter, Vox, as a precautionary measure, demands that the Supreme Court immediately suspend the investiture session scheduled for tomorrow and communicate it to the Cortes and the King. When asked if he believes that the Supreme Court will suspend the investiture, Abascal paraphrased the statements of the conservative judicial associations, which described the PSOE agreement with the independents as “the beginning of the end of democracy”, “abolition of democracy”. have the rule of law” or “attack on the separation of powers” and is convinced that if the judges agree with their statements, “they will use all legal means at their disposal to stop this attack”.
Abascal arrived at the Supreme Court accompanied by senior officials of his party and staged a closing ceremony that was joined by some faces who have recently fallen from grace, such as former Secretary General Javier Ortega Smith, who has been in the background since a year ago Dismissed from office. Several dozen supporters who attended the station’s call were also waiting for him in front of the seat of the high court. “Tomorrow a tragic period will begin in the history of Spain if we do not prevent it,” Abascal assured the Supreme Court. The Vox boss has sent a message to the judges who must consider his request to suspend the plenary session this Wednesday. “We believe this coup can be stopped in the courts and in the Senate. And we hope that everyone who bears responsibility will fulfill this responsibility,” he said, paraphrasing Aznar’s succinct sentence (“Whoever can, let him do it”).
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In the complaint filed by Vox, four crimes are attributed to Sánchez and Puigdemont and their respective parties. Treason is not taken into account, since the Constitution stipulates that a quarter of the members of Congress must submit a motion to accuse the President of the Government of this or any other crime against the security of the State in the exercise of his duties. The motion must be made be approved by an absolute majority of the House of Representatives. The document submitted to the Supreme Court accuses the sitting president of having “committed actions that are manifestly inconsistent with the duties inherent in his office.” “Such acts involve agreeing wills with those who have committed or are being prosecuted for the most serious crimes against the Constitution and the legal order,” says the lawsuit, which states that Sánchez “has himself as president the Spanish Government committed to dismemberment.” the national unity of Spain (referendum or consultation, even unconstitutional, on a non-existent right to self-determination, denied by a permanent and continuous constitutional doctrine which, because it is known, does not need to be cited), to the collapse of the separation of powers, to the destruction of the equality of Spaniards and the democratic system.
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✅ Complaints against the incumbent president for various crimes.
✅ Complaint against the refugee Puigdemont and the agreements signed between PSOE and Junts.
✅ Precautionary measure to suspend the investiture plenary session in Congress.… pic.twitter.com/bp5H4cSms5
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The document presented to the Criminal Chamber contains the text of the amnesty law proposal registered this Monday by the PSOE, which, according to Vox, “represents the most serious attack on the judiciary in the democratic history of Spain and Europe”. 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.
Vox demands that the Supreme Court immediately suspend the investiture session scheduled for this Wednesday. The application is formulated as a very precautionary measure that does not require the parties to be heard. Legal sources indicate that measures of this type, which also affect the legislative power, are not often required in the criminal sector. There is no set procedure, but the Supreme Court does not rule out giving an answer before the time scheduled for the start of the congressional session this Wednesday at 12 p.m.
This petition is similar, although not identical, to the petition filed by several people in courts of first instance in various cities in Spain. This petition requested that the Congressional Committee temporarily suspend the bill’s consideration. No judge has yet examined this possibility, but the Madrid public prosecutor’s office has ruled on it in a case opened by a court in the capital. According to the ministry, the request to suspend a parliamentary law falls within the “exclusive” jurisdiction of the Constitutional Court.
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