The Constitutional Court (TC) has rejected for processing the appeal filed by the former president of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, and the former Catalan minister Toni Comin against the arrest warrants issued by the Supreme Court for the crimes of disobedience and embezzlement.
Legal sources have confirmed to Europa Press that the decision has been adopted by the Holiday room of the guarantee body by two votes in favor -those of the magistrates of the conservative wing Cesar Tolosa and Concepcion Espejel– and one against – that of the magistrate of the progressive sector Laura Diez-.
According to the sources consulted, the conservative majority of the Chamber has declared its competence to hear about the decision to admit to processing, since it was necessary to decide on the request for a very precautionary measure to suspend the arrest warrant of the Supreme Court.
The Chamber has considered that the fundamental rights of Puigdemont and Comín have not been violated. This decision has had the particular vote of Díez, who has disagreed with the majority considering that the Section should not have resolved the matter -but the Plenary- because the decision on the suspension of the very precautionary measures was not urgent and considering that, In his case, the appeal for amparo should have been admitted.
It is “the first time that the Constitutional Court rejects an appeal [de este proceso] and departs from the practice followed by this Court in relation to the amparos filed, which have been systematically admitted and referred to a plenary session for resolution”, said Díez.
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