The Superior Court of Catalonia (TSJC) today declared admissible complaints of disobedience against the Catalan regional president, Artur Mas, for organizing the November 9 a symbolic consultation on the independence of this Spanish autonomous community.
“The room full civil and criminal TSJC agreed by majority nevertheless admit all allegations and complaints for alleged disobedience to the decision of the Constitutional Court” , which had suspended such consultation, the court said in a statement.
The complaints are directed against Mas admitted, the vice president of the regional government and the Minister Joana Ortega (regional minister) of education, Irene Rigau.
“There are some complaints that I personally do not understand, someone takes you to court for putting the polls and because people can vote is one thing that is not understood,” said Mas today, before meeting the judicial decision.
“But well, anyway this is reality and I fully decisions of judicial spheres respect,” he added. After learning of the court decision, Anna Simó, spokesman leftist independence party, ERC, which supported the query, expressed his “full support in these moments that are not easy” to Mas.
The six judges Hall, who have debated for four hours, decided that the seven complaints and twenty complaints against him and his team are grouped into one, which is the oldest of them presented by this case.
Among the complaints is ordered to submit the former state attorney general, Eduardo Torres-Dulce, following a tax dispute with the Catalans who saw material for the same.
The differences of opinions on the case between Torres -Dulce and the central government also finished as the environment of the former attorney general, to bridge their patience, leading him to resign on Thursday.
Disobedience
The prosecution finally presented to the TSJC a criminal complaint on charges of “disobedience, trespass, misappropriation of public funds and usurpation of functions”.
But Ortega and Rigau will be investigated for alleged disobedience to Constitutional Court, which suspended the November 4 holding a token consultation on the independence of Catalonia , introducing the Spanish conservative government of Mariano Rajoy an appeal against it.
The regional government Catalan, hand nationalists CiU, decided to convene this symbolic query after the High Court had already proceeded on September 29, also at the request of central executive, to cancel a scheduled official referendum only two days before. The Spanish conservative government argued that, under the Constitution, only the state has the power to hold referendums.
A total of 2’344,828 people participated in the controversial vote no legal value, no census or oversight committee, of which almost 1.9 million people voted for independence, according to some final results announced on December 1 by the regional government after counting the votes cast between 9 and 25 November.
The Catalan regional government called to respond to a double question referendum scheduled for official and remained in the symbolic query: “Do you want Catalonia is a State, and if so, does this state is independent? ? “.
The results of the consultation were I considered” complete success “by Mas, while for Rajoy he was a” failure “, since only one in three people of the 6.3 million Catalan voting went to the polls.
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