Catalan News Agency - Spain wants to claim criminal liability against Parliament’s President
Spain wants to claim criminal liability against Parliament’s President
CNA
Barcelona (CNA).- Spain’s executive wants the Spanish
Constitutional Court (TC) to apply an enforced sentence against the
Parliament’s President, Carme Forcadell, for having disobeyed the TC’s
rulings and allowing the pro-independence roadmap to be put to vote on
Wednesday. In particular, the Spanish executive calls for the TC to
“proceed to consider the witness of particulars in order to claim
criminal liability against the Parliament’s President for disobeying the
rulings of the TC, which all public servants are compelled to obey”.
The current Spanish Cabinet, which met this Friday, also agreed to
attempt to expressly ban the Parliament’s President, the Parliament
Bureau and the Catalan President, Carles Puigdemont, from promoting any
initiative in relation to the pro-independence process.
For her part, Forcadell assured that she is “not afraid” of the TC
and insisted that she “acted according to the rules” and that she
“couldn’t’ impede” the vote on the conclusions of the Committee for the
Constitutive Process from taking place. The Parliament’s President
lamented the attempts of the Spanish executive to “limit political
debate” and “restrict the freedom of speech of the Parliament and its
MPs”.
Current Spanish Vice President, Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría (by ACN)
