The institutional clash between the Executive and the Judiciary had a new chapter today following the agreement of the Government Chamber of the National Court, which unanimously decided to defend Judge María Tardón, responsible for studying a complaint about the massive entry of migrants into Ceuta at the end of July.
The High Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) will not apply, for the moment, the amnesty to those considered architects of the procés, Josep Maria Jové and Lluís Salvadó, both leaders of ERC. The Civil and Criminal Chamber considers that the ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) of last July 16, favorable to granting amnesty, does not answer all the questions raised in relation to the case of Jové and Salvadó, both accused of embezzlement of public funds.
The Civil and Criminal Chamber of the High Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) has applied the partial pardon that the Council of Ministers approved last July 28 to the former president of the Parliament of Catalonia Laura Borràs, by which her prison sentence of four years, six months, and one day is commuted to another of two years as responsible for a continued crime of falsification of an official document and as an instigator of a continued crime of falsification of a commercial document when she was president of the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes (ILC). It also reduces to two years the accessory penalty of special disqualification from exercising the right to passive suffrage.
The Official Bulletin of the Ministry of Defense has published the promotion to colonel of Antonio Balas, who will continue to lead the anti-corruption department of the central operational unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard on secondment, as requested by the judge of the National Court Ismael Moreno.
The tension and nerves within the Executive and its environment are increasing, and the Ceuta crisis has made it rise even more. The fear of a new judicial fire affecting the Government caused two moves yesterday that were appeased by the president of the judiciary, Isabel Perelló, who had to demand the “utmost respect” for the judge of the National Court María Tardón.
Pedro Sánchez went to the Congress of Deputies yesterday with the urgent need to regain the initiative and gain some political breathing room. After almost a month of secrecy and fruitless damage control over the migratory and humanitarian crisis unleashed in Ceuta on July 30 and 31, the Prime Minister insisted on dissociating Rabat from the authorship of the assault. “It cannot be concluded” that the massive entry was designed by Morocco, he maintained, although he admitted that it will be investigated whether there was “inaction or incapacity” on the part of the neighboring country’s authorities.
La Casa del Rey knew that Pedro Sánchez would announce this Thursday in the Congress of Deputies that Felipe VI will travel to Ceuta “in the coming weeks.” According to sources consulted by La Vanguardia, the Zarzuela had been previously informed of the Prime Minister’s intention to make the visit public, after several days of conflicting versions between the Executive and the Casa del Rey about a trip that has become one of the political issues at the start of this term.
The President of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, met this Thursday afternoon in Kiev with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, at the Presidential Office of the Ukrainian head of state. The meeting served for the Catalan leader to convey Catalonia’s solidarity with the Ukrainian people and to invite the country’s president to visit Barcelona and Catalonia.
Pedro Sánchez’s appearance in Congress to provide explanations about the Ceuta crisis has confirmed that the Government was wrong throughout August in considering that the incident was almost resolved with the immediate Moroccan decision to…
A 17-year-old Moroccan minor has died this Thursday in a reception center in Ceuta, according to police and health sources. The initial hypotheses suggest that the death is a consequence of the diabetes he suffered from and that authorities had been monitoring since his irregular arrival in the city.