Far-right MEP Luis ‘Alvise’ Pérez loses his parliamentary immunity. The European Parliament voted this Tuesday in favor of lifting the protection of the leader of Se acabó La Fiesta (SALF), as requested by the Supreme Court to be able to prosecute him for alleged harassment on social media via Telegram of the delegated prosecutor for hate crimes and discrimination in Valencia, Susana Gisbert.
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It was a decision taken by a show of hands and was taken for granted after the members of this Committee last week gave the green light to the report drafted by the Italian Mario Furore, MEP for the Five Star Movement party, which called for Pérez’s immunity to be withdrawn because the reported events took place before he was elected MEP almost two years ago.
Motivations
The Committee on Legal Affairs does not believe that the Supreme Court intends to harm his political activity
Therefore, the Supreme Court’s accusation would not be to harm his political activity, one of the conditions required by the European Parliament to maintain parliamentary protection. Furthermore, the report also made it clear that it did not meet the other requirement, the fumus persecutionis. That is, the existence of elements indicating that the Supreme Court would have acted to harm the political activity of the SALF leader.
According to the request for a waiver of immunity transmitted by the Supreme Court to the European Parliament, the administrator of the Telegram channel called “Alvise Pérez Chat” disseminated the names of the “responsible parties for the ideological persecution called hate crimes,” referring to the delegated prosecutor for hate crimes in Valencia. This led to numerous followers of the channel sending more than 1,500 comments to Gisbert, mostly insulting in nature.
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Now, the MEP could appeal the lifting of his immunity before European justice. It also does not mean that his seat has been withdrawn or that a guilty verdict has already been issued for the crimes he is accused of, but rather that Spanish courts will decide whether or not he should be disqualified.
It is not the only case, however, that the European Parliament has to deal with regarding his legal situation. The Committee on Legal Affairs must also resolve another separate request for a waiver of immunity for alleged electoral offenses and illegal financing of his party, while the Supreme Court investigates the 100,000 euros he received from businessman Álvaro Romillo, alias ‘CryptoSpain’, during the 2024 European elections campaign.
Furthermore, in March, the European Parliament sanctioned Luis ‘Alvise’ Pérez for recording socialist MEP Juan Fernando López Aguilar during a plenary session without his consent and using the video on his social media with “disparaging comments.” The punishment involved withdrawing his daily allowance for ten days, meaning he stopped receiving 3,590 euros, and preventing him from speaking in a plenary session for four days. Last year, he was also sanctioned for not including all required income in the mandatory declaration of private interests for all MEPs.
