Madrid. From Waterloo, where he has lived for seven years, former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont filed a complaint with the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) against Supreme Court judge Pablo Llanera, who in his opinion is intentionally delaying the resolution of the appeal he filed so that the general amnesty law can be applied as soon as possible, which would annul the charges against him. Puigdemont is wanted by the Spanish courts, however on August 8 he went to Barcelona to give a rally in the framework of the investiture debate of the socialist Salvador Illa and after speaking to his followers he disappeared and avoided being arrested by the Catalan autonomous police, who had supposedly started a device to carry out his arrest.
The arrest warrant for Puigdemont was issued by Judge Llarena, who is investigating most of the charges against him and who refuses to apply the amnesty law to one of them, the one referring to the crimes of misappropriation of public funds, considering that it is not applicable and that it would go against European regulations in this particularly sensitive area in community institutions. However, Puigdemont filed the complaint against the judge, whom he accused of “inattention and unjustified and repeated delay”, for which he considers that “he has committed a disciplinary infraction by having far exceeded and repeatedly failed to comply with the legal deadline provided for in the Criminal Procedure Law for the resolution of appeals for reform”.
The CGPJ is the governing body of judges and has just been renewed after a long negotiation between the two main political parties, the Popular Party (PP) and the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE). However, it still has to appoint its new president.
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– 2024-08-25 04:39:13
