CATALONIA
'Carles Puigdemont, the former Catalan president,
will take part in the European election after successfully challenging
the electoral authority’s original decision to bar him from his party’s
list.
But his clash with the body regulating all elections in Spain does not end here.
Junts, his political group, filed a lawsuit against two members of the
electoral board for a breach of official duty, accusing them of
“partiality” and “hostility” against him.
The lawsuit also says
that the two members of the body, Andrés Betancor and Carlos Vidal, had
been “previously contaminated by their ideological and political
beliefs.”
Betancor was proposed in Congress by unionist Ciutadans
(Cs) party, while Vidal was put forth by the People’s Party (PP) – both
parties have been challenging Puigdemont’s bid in the EU election.'
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