Puigdemont see the process against a Catalan political as an embarrassment to Spain – Sputnik World

“Today you are going to write a page of shame of parliamentarism Spanish, that its leaders want you to not remember, you will not have the courage to stand up,” he said Puigdemont.

The Congress of Deputies will decide this Tuesday whether to approve a suplicatorio against Francesc Homs, which would allow the Constitutional Court to bring to trial the political Catalan for their participation in the consultation pro-sovereignty of the November 9, 2014.

Homs, which at that time was counselor of the Catalan Government, is being investigated for possible crimes of prevarication, disobedience and misuse of public funds by allowing the celebration of the query.

In this process, carried against the provisions of the Constitutional Court, participated 2.3 million people, of which a 80,76% voted for the independence of Catalonia.

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In principle, the suplicatorio will be supported by the conservatives of the Popular Party, the social democrats of the PSOE and the liberals of Citizens.

In the opinion of the chairman of the Executive Catalan, if “the parties of the government coalition in Spanish” decide to approve the suplicatorio, will be “violating the decision of the voters catalans” and going “above his will.”

For his part, Gabriel Ruffian, spokesman for the pro-independence party the Republican Left of Catalonia, welcomed on Thursday the trial of Homs as “an assault on democracy”.

Outside of the spectrum of independence, the leader of United Left and a member of the coalition United we Can, Alberto Garzón, expressed the view that the courts are not the place to resolve the territorial conflict with Catalonia, which in its view must be addressed by the political way through dialogue.

on the other hand, the spokesman of the Government, Iñigo Méndez de Vigo, denied that the conflict Catalan is being judicializado and defended the suplicatorio as a “key element of the rule of Law” to be able to bring before the courts “without any privilege” to members whose conduct does not conform to the Law.