Former president Catalan will be judged for disobedience – Milenio.com

The former president, Catalan, Artur Mas, and two members of his government will be judged at the beginning of February in Barcelona for “grave disobedience” for organizing in 2014 a token consultation on the independence, announced the court.

The announcement coincides with a summit in the Catalan parliament convened by his successor, Carles Puigdemont, to plan the organization in September of a self-determination referendum binding in this north-eastern region even though it is against the justice and the Spanish government.

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“Agreement set for the holding of the sessions of the oral hearing in the present proceeding, the days 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 of February,” said the judge in his car, where designated as the rapporteur of the court president of the high Court of Justice of the region.

Before you enter the meeting, But quipped about “the christmas wish” received by “to have committed a great crime: having listened to the people, be put on the ballot and let the people vote,” he told the press.

“This trial is an aberration, with all the letters, but so is the democracy in Spain”, he added.

Mas, vice president Joana Ortega and the Education officer of your government, Irene Rigau, are accused of grave disobedience and transgression, by promoting the consultation on the independence of November 9, 2014 which had been banned by the Constitutional Court.

In the vote, which had no legal effect, covered about 2.3 million people on a census of approximately 6 million and 80 percent of them opted for secession.

The investigating judge said that the leader of catalonia”, he articulated a strategy of challenge complete and effective to the suspension agreed to by the Constitutional Court.”

The prosecution claim to them ten years of ineligibility for public office. It could also be disabled, the former spokesman of this government, Francesc Homs, who will be tried by the Supreme Court on the same facts.

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in Addition, the president of the Catalan parliament, Carme Forcadell, is also being investigated by disobedience, after allowing for the debate and the adoption of a resolution that defined the steps to be taken by the region to its independence.

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