Lawyer of former Catalan rejects desobedeciera to Constitutional – Terra Chile

The lawyer of the former president of the Spanish region of Catalonia, Artur Mas, tried by a consultation independence in 2014 suspended by the Constitutional Court of Spain, argued today that this body would not be bound to prevent the vote, and therefore, not disobeyed.

During the last session of the trial against the Catalan political and two members of his former executive in the high Court of Justice of Catalonia, the lawyer Xavier Melero focused their argument on the “lack of concreteness” of the high court before the query.

The three are accused of an alleged crime of trespass and disobedience are severe for allowing the above-mentioned vote on November 9, 2014.

on That day, the regional executive of Mas allowed a consultation on the independence of Catalonia, which was attended by 2.3 million people of a census of 5.4 million, despite the fact that the Constitutional overturned the call.

For the defense of former Catalan regional, the communication of the Constitutional “did not impose a positive duty to prevent” such a query is pro-sovereignty, so that not disobeyed.

For his part, the prosecutor Emilio Sánchez Ulled, which maintains its request for the ten-year ban for Mas, stated in its final conclusions that if the politician would have accepted that questioning at trial, he would have shown the text of the constitution that suspends the query.

One of the main lines of the indictment of Sánchez Ulled is based on Mas and his two counselors, Joana Ortega and Irene Rigau, “decided on a whim to dispense with the constitutional mandate,” which suspended the vote on the 9 November.

in view of the criticisms of the nationalists catalans, who qualify this process of attack on the democracy by preventing the people to be expressed, the prosecutor stated that it was not judging the “popular will”, but a “serious breach” of the rules of the democratic game and the peaceful coexistence.

Insisted that he had no “indication” on the part of the Spanish Government, who was the one who complained to the Constitutional Court the query of catalonia.

The prosecutor’s office is an institution with a hierarchical, headed by the Attorney General of the State, which appoints the Government.