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Supreme Court asks EU Parliament to suspend Puigdemont and Comín immunity

News Desk10th January 202013th January 2020

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Pablo Llarena, the Spanish Supreme Court judge, has now asked the European Parliament to suspend the MEP immunity of Carles Puigdemont and Toni Comín. He is also maintaining...

Supreme Court rejects suspending JEC decision on Torra’s disqualification

News Desk10th January 202011th January 2020

10th January 202011th January 20202585

Spain’s Supreme Court rejected on Friday to immediately suspend the decision of the country’s Electoral Authority (JEC) ordering that the Catalan president Quim Torra be disqualified from his...

Judge refuses to release Junqueras after family file for ‘Habeas Corpus’

News Desk10th January 202011th January 2020

10th January 202011th January 20202250

A judge at the local court in Manresa (Barcelona) has refused to release the jailed Catalan independence leader Oriol Junqueras, after the politician’s family filed a petition on...

Supreme Court rules to keep Junqueras in jail, denying MEP immunity

News Desk9th January 202014th January 2020

9th January 202014th January 20202978

The Spanish Supreme Court has now formally denied Catalan jailed leader Oriol Junqueras parliamentary immunity, and will not free him to receive his accreditation as an...

Supreme Court rejects suspending JEC ruling that prevents Junqueras becoming MEP

News Desk9th January 20209th January 2020

9th January 20209th January 20203539

The Spanish Supreme Court has rejected suspending the decision of Spain’s Electoral Authority (JEC) that prevents Oriol Junqueras taking up his seat as an MEP. The Catalan pro-independence...

Pedro Sánchez, Quim Torra finally speak – and will meet in coming days

News Desk9th January 202012th January 2020

9th January 202012th January 20203057

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, officially re-elected on Tuesday, has held a telephone conversation of approximately seven minutes with the Catalan president Quim Torra, and they...

Oriol Junqueras elected president of EFA group in EU Parliament

News Desk7th January 202012th January 2020

7th January 202012th January 20202528

Oriol Junqueras, the jailed former Catalan vice-president, has been elected president of the European Free Alliance (EFA) group in the European Parliament. Alongside former Catalan president Carles...

Pedro Sánchez voted in as PM of Spain’s first ever coalition government

News Desk7th January 202010th January 2020

7th January 202010th January 20204087

Socialist (PSOE) leader Pedro Sánchez has been officially voted in as Spanish Prime Minister on Tuesday, after a second round vote gave him 167 votes...

Puigdemont, Junqueras, Comín now officially recognised as MEPs

News Desk6th January 202010th January 2020

6th January 202010th January 20203566

Former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, his former jailed vice president Oriol Junqueras, and former minister Toni Comín, have all been officially recognised as MEPs by...

Pedro Sánchez has to wait until second round vote on Tuesday

News Desk5th January 20207th January 2020

5th January 20207th January 20202878

Acting Spanish prime minister and Socialist (PSOE) leader Pedro Sánchez will now have to wait until Tuesday and the second round of votes in the Spanish...

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