When you are willing to do anything, really anything, to occupy the seats and defeat the opponent, you run big risks. Especially if to satisfy the thirst for power you have to rely on maxi-gaggles with parties and people light years away, close only for the great interest in commanding. A necessary premise to turn your gaze towards the Spainwhere yesterday the Prime Minister Peter Sanchez received a bad beating… from the Supreme Court of Madrid. The reason? The sentence against Carles Puigdemont.
Spain’s highest judicial body has not spared the former president of the Catalan Generalitat, on the run after the failed independence referendum attempt in 2017. Despite the amnesty law voted by the Madrid Parliament and promoted by the government of Pedro Sanchez, to which Puigdemont’s party, Junts x Catalunya, gives external support, this does not apply to the accusations of misappropriation of public funds linked to the independence process.
According to the judges of the Supreme Court of Madrid, Puigdemont and former councillors Antonio Comin and Lluis Puig obtained “a personal economic advantage” from the organisation of the referendum, paying for it with funds from the Generalitat and, in doing so, Inside Over reports, “they supported their expenses to the Autonomous Administration, without the initiative responding to the satisfaction of any public interest”. The amnesty therefore does not apply tomisappropriation of public resourceswith all due respect to the little deal torn up to get the prime minister’s seat. And beware of the possible repercussions.
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