157 posts
17 July 2019
The motion that condemned Felipe VI, brought by Catalunya en Comú-Podem, was passed in the Parlament of Catalonia, with Catalunya en Comú-Podem, JxCat and ERC […]
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Free parliamentary debatePoliticised Constitutional Court5 September 2019
The Sixth Examining Magistrate’s Court of Figueres agrees to proceed with the case against Marta Felip, the mayor of the city, for an alleged crime […]
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Politicisation of justicePoliticised Constitutional Court2 October 2019
The plenary session of the Constitutional Court overturns the creation of a commission of inquiry into the Spanish monarchy passed by theParliament of Catalonia on […]
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Free parliamentary debatePoliticised Constitutional Court7 October 2019
The Spanish Government is challenging the resolution passed by Parliament on 25 July once again censuring the Spanish monarchy and reaffirming the right to self-determination. […]
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Free parliamentary debatePoliticised Constitutional Court14 October 2019
The Spanish government challenges the resolution passed by the Parliament on 26 September defending civil and institutional disobedience as a response to the Supreme Court’s […]
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Free parliamentary debatePoliticised Constitutional Court22 October 2019
The Bureau of Parliament admits a motion put forth by JxCat, ERC and the CUP, condemning the Supreme Court ruling against the pro-independence leaders and […]
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Free parliamentary debatePoliticised Constitutional Court28 October 2019
The ‘Strategic Plan for Foreign Affairs and Relations with the European Union 2019-2022’ adopted by the Government of Catalonia on 25 June is challengedbefore the […]
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Politicised Constitutional CourtViolation of autonomy29 October 2019
The Bureau of Parliament allows debate on a motion presented by the CUP calling on Parliament to reiterate its will to exercise the right of […]
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Free parliamentary debatePoliticised Constitutional Court12 November 2019
With the goal of avoiding the Constitutional Court’s foreseeable ban, the president of Parliament, Roger Torrent, calls an early start to the plenary session that […]
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Free parliamentary debatePoliticised Constitutional Court26 November 2019
The plenary session of the Parliament of Catalonia passes the resolution presented by JxCat, ERC and the CUP condemning the Supreme Court’s ruling against the […]
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Free parliamentary debatePoliticised Constitutional Court28 November 2019
The plenary session of the Constitutional Court dismisses the appeal for protection presented byOriol Junqueras against Judge Pablo Llarena’s decision to keep him in pre-trial […]
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Politicised Constitutional CourtPrison regimeRight to political representation18 December 2019
The Constitutional Court overturns the resolutions passed by the Parliament of Catalonia on 25 July and 26 September that once again censured the monarchy and […]
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Free parliamentary debatePoliticised Constitutional Court15 January 2020
The Constitutional Court rejects the appeals presented by Jordi Sànchez and Carme Forcadell (dismissed on 15 January), Raül Romeva (dismissed on 13 February), and Jordi […]
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Politicised Constitutional CourtPrison regimeRight to political representation28 January 2020
The Constitutional Court decides to overturn the Bureau of Parliament’s 22 October 2019 decision to allow a vote on sections censuring the monarchy and asserting […]
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Free parliamentary debatePoliticised Constitutional Court28 January 2020
The Plenary Session of the Constitutional Court upholds the March 2018 decision of Pablo Llarena, the investigating judge in the case against the leaders of […]
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Politicised Constitutional CourtRight to political representation7 February 2020
On 28 January it dismissed Oriol Junqueras’s appeal against the decision of Pablo Llarena, the investigating judge in the case against the leaders of the […]
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Politicised Constitutional CourtPrison regimeRight to political representation9 February 2020
Jordi Sànchez, Jordi Turull, Joaquim Forn i Josep Rull had started a hunger strike to protest against the blocking, since this prevented them to resort […]
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Politicised Constitutional CourtPrison regime11 February 2020
The Constitutional Court overturns the Bureau’s 29 October 2019 decision to allow a resolution presented by the CUP reaffirming Parliament’s commitment to the right to […]
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Free parliamentary debatePoliticised Constitutional Court11 February 2020
The Constitutional Court finally rejects the appeal that Carles Puigdemont and the other JxCat members of Parliament had presented against the refusal of Pablo Llarena, […]
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Politicised Constitutional CourtPrison regimeRight to political representation25 February 2020
The appeal, presented in relation to the case against the leaders of the 1 October referendum and before Junqueras, Turull, Romeva, Rull and Sànchez were […]
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Politicised Constitutional CourtRight to political representation20 March 2020
Between 13 and 20 March, Junqueras, Forcadell and Romeva present appeals for protection before the Constitutional Court in relation to the ruling against the independence […]
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Politicised Constitutional CourtRight to a fair trialRights to free expression and assembly22 June 2020
The plenary session of the Constitutional Court declares some of the articles of the Catalan Tax Code law (Llei del Codi Tributari de Catalunya) to […]
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Politicised Constitutional Court10 July 2020
The first vice-president of the Bureau of the CatalanParliament, Josep Costa, together with the secretary of the Bureau, Eusebi Campdepadrós, of the JxCat party, have […]
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Free parliamentary debatePoliticised Constitutional Court21 July 2020
The Plenary Session of the Constitutional Court unanimously endorses the decision of the Bureau of the Congress of Deputies of 24 May 2019 to suspend […]
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Politicised Constitutional CourtRight to political representation10 August 2020
The Secretary-General of Parliament, Xavier Muro, instructs that the resolutions passed by the plenary session on the monarchy be published without the parts that he […]
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Free parliamentary debatePoliticised Constitutional Court23 September 2020
The Constitutional Court partially upholds the Spanish Government’s appeal against the ’Strategic foreign affairs plan and relations with the European Union 2019-2022,’ annulling some sections […]
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Politicised Constitutional CourtViolation of autonomy3 November 2020
The Constitutional Courthas rejected the appeal for protection filed by Quim Torra against the decision of the Supreme Court not to suspend as a precautionary […]
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Central Electoral BoardJudicial vetoes of elected officialsPoliticisation of justicePoliticised Constitutional CourtRight to political representation17 November 2020
The prisoners argue that Narváez lacks impartiality to resolve the appeals for protection based on the magistrate’s value judgements during the conference entitled ‘The Catalan […]
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Politicised Constitutional CourtRight to a fair trial16 February 2021
The magistrate presents a brief to the members of the court after the prisoners demand that he be recused following the Supreme Court’s ruling regarding […]
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Politicised Constitutional CourtRight to a fair trial17 February 2021
Borràs was sentenced by the Supreme Court to one year in prison, eight months of disqualification and issued with a fine of 60,000 euros for […]
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Politicisation of justicePoliticised Constitutional CourtRight to a fair trial1 March 2021
The Prosecutor’s Office files a complaint before the High Court of Justice of Catalonia against former president of the Bureau of Parliament Roger Torrent (ERC) […]
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Free parliamentary debateNeutrality of the Prosecutor's OfficePoliticised Constitutional Court17 March 2021
The former minister’s appeal argued that the Supreme Court had violated his presumption of innocence. The Constitutional Court dismisses the appeal because it considers that […]
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Politicisation of justicePoliticised Constitutional CourtRight to a fair trial18 March 2021
The full Constitutional Court unanimously endorses the decision of the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of 14 May, 2019, not to suspend the trial […]
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Politicised Constitutional Court18 March 2021
The defence of the three exiles files for the recusal of Conde-Pumpido, magistrate of the Constitutional Court, in order that he abstain from the resolution […]
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Politicised Constitutional CourtRight to a fair trial4 April 2021
The magistrate of the Constitutional Court Cándido Conde-Pumpido proposes through a letter to the president of the Constitutional Court that he abstain from taking part […]
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Politicised Constitutional CourtViolation of autonomy22 April 2021
The former minister filed an appeal to the high court against the judgement of 1 October issued by the Supreme Court denouncing a violation of […]
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Politicisation of justicePoliticised Constitutional CourtRight to a fair trial11 May 2021
The Court considers that the fundamental rights of the former minister have not been violated by the sentence issued by the Supreme Court on the […]
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Politicisation of justicePoliticised Constitutional Court13 May 2021
The Constitutional Court dismisses the appeal for protection presented by Francesc Homs against the Supreme Court ruling on the organisation of the consultation of 9 […]
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Politicised Constitutional CourtRight to a fair trialRight to political representation7 October 2021
The Constitutional Court dismisses the appeal presented by former president Artur Mas against the sentence issued by the Supreme Court, which confirmed the sentence of […]
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Politicised Constitutional CourtRight to a fair trialRight to political representation21 October 2021
The agreement consists in the renewal of four members of the Constitutional Court, the twelve members of the Court of Auditors, the Ombudsman and the […]
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Politicised Constitutional CourtRight to a fair trial28 October 2021
The former president of the Parliament had appealed against the resolution of the Supreme Court that sentenced her to 11 years and 6 months in […]
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Politicisation of justicePoliticised Constitutional Court8 February 2022
The Constitutional Court annuls the agreements of the Bureau of Parliament of 25 September 2019 that initiated the procedure of the draft resolutions ‘For an […]
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Free parliamentary debatePoliticised Constitutional Court23 February 2022
The former president of the Catalan Government had filed an appeal for protection against the sentences that condemned him for disobedience on the understanding that […]
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Central Electoral BoardPoliticisation of justicePoliticised Constitutional CourtRight to a fair trialRights to free expression and assembly23 March 2022
The Constitutional Court considers that the sentence of the Supreme Court against the leaders of 1 October was issued following procedural guarantees and imposed a […]
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Politicised Constitutional CourtRight to a fair trial24 March 2022
The appeals of the former ministers of Labour and Interior respectively were the last to be pending. As happened with all appeals for protection (except […]
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Politicised Constitutional CourtRight to a fair trial7 April 2022
The Constitutional Court considers that the former vice-president of the Parliament of Catalonia, Josep Costa , did not have his rights violated, given that the […]
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Free parliamentary debateNeutrality of the Prosecutor's OfficePoliticised Constitutional CourtRight to a fair trial31 May 2022
The Constitutional Court accepts for consideration the appeal for protection filed by the MPs of Ciudadanos and annuls the agreements of the Bureau of the […]
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Politicised Constitutional CourtRight to political representation27 June 2022
The Constitutional Court annuls the agreements taken on 25 and 26 March 2021 by the Bureau of the Parliament of Catalonia on the acceptance of […]
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Free parliamentary debatePoliticised Constitutional Court12 July 2022
The Constitutional Court also declares unconstitutional the agreements of the plenary session and the Bureau of the Parliament of Catalonia that authorised the delegation of […]
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Free parliamentary debatePoliticised Constitutional CourtRight to political representation12 September 2022
Pau Juvillà, former CUP MP in the Parliament of Catalonia, had appealed for protection against the decision of the Secretariat-General of the Parliament of Catalonia […]
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Central Electoral BoardPoliticised Constitutional CourtRight to a fair trialRights to free expression and assembly19 December 2022
The Spanish government (PSOE and Unidas-Podemos) had taken advantage of proceedings of the amendment of the Criminal Code to introduce a proposal to change the […]
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Free parliamentary debatePoliticised Constitutional Court27 December 2022
Although the reform on the appointment of Constitutional Court judges appointed by the General Council of the Judiciary could not be passed due to the […]
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Free parliamentary debatePoliticisation of justicePoliticised Constitutional Court11 January 2023
Judge Cándido Conde-Pumpido, who had been prosecutor general under Zapatero, is elected president of the Constitutional Court, defeating Judge María Luisa Balaguer, also close to […]
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Politicised Constitutional Court31 May 2023
A criminal judge of Sabadell sentences the former mayor of Sabadell Maties Serracant for a crime of serious disobedience, with the mitigation of undue delays. […]
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Politicisation of justicePoliticised Constitutional CourtRight to political representation24 July 2023
In the morning, Clara Ponsatí announces on social media that she is in Barcelona. It is the first time that Ponsatí is back in Barcelona […]
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Politicised Constitutional Court9 August 2023
MEPs Carles Puigdemont and Toni Comín had appealed the resolutions of pre-trial Supreme Court judge in the case against the 1 October independence referendum leaders […]
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Politicised Constitutional Court23 November 2023
The events would have taken place on 18 October 2019, during the protests against the 1 October independence ruling in Urquinaona and Via Laietana. Barcelona […]
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Politicised Constitutional CourtRights to free expression and assembly