The instructor of the ‘procés’ has given the Prosecutor’s Office and the defense of Puigdemont and three other defendants a period of five days to report on how the amnesty law affects them.
The former president of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemontstill has a valid warrant against him and a national arrest warrant, and he will be arrested if he enters Spain.
This was ruled this Tuesday by the Supreme Court judge Pablo Llarenawho has requested the Prosecutor’s Office to report on the applicability of the amnesty law to Puigdemont and three other independence leaders who were not tried by the ‘procés’.
The amnesty law comes into force this Tuesday after having been published in the Official State Gazette (BOE).
Llarena asked that the Security Forces and Corps be informed that “the national arrest warrants continue to be in force and active” for Puigdemont, Comín, Puig and Rovira. And he warns that, for this reason, “they must proceed to comply with them as long as these decisions are not judicially modified or revoked”.
Rull will preside over Parliament
On the other hand,Joseph Rullfrom Junts, was chosen this Monday as new president of the Parliament of Catalonia.
Rull’s victory, with 59 votes, brought about an agreement between the three main sovereigntist parties, Junts, ERC and CUP. The socialist candidate Silvia Paneque It was the second most voted, with 42 votes.
Rull, counselor during the ‘process’, He was sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison for sedition, of whom three were in prison. In 2021 he was pardoned.
In the Supreme Court there are two criminal proceedings on the ‘procés’: the one that includes Puigdemont and the former Catalan councilors who were prosecuted in absentia, since Oriol Junqueras and the rest of the independence leaders, convicted in 2019 for crimes of disobedience and embezzlement; and, secondly, that of alleged terrorism against Puigdemont and Wagensberg in the ‘Democratic Tsunami case’.
