Puigdemont challenges the government by promoting a telematic investiture | Spain

Pujol framed the option of insisting on the investiture of Puigdemont within the will to "be faithful to the outcome of the 21-D elections". "The Spanish justice system has favored actions that have not allowed us to invest or settle positively four investiture since January 30," added the spokesman of the 28 deputies who moved to the German capital to meet the expresident and decide the strategy to continue in the coming days.

Pujol insisted that his formation does not want other elections: "Before May 22 we must have resolved the political situation," he said. However, the commitment to hold on to invest Puigdemont telematically will have an ephemeral life. Last Friday, the Council of Ministers approved to initiate the procedures to appeal the modification that includes the telematic investiture before the Constitutional Court. The Government is waiting for the Council of State to meet, which must issue a non-binding opinion on the appeal. Subsequently, the sole acceptance of the text by the Altro Tribunal would imply its precautionary suspension. The Constitutional also meets next Tuesday.

The Government also has the possibility of torpedoing Puigdemont's plans through its control of the Official Gazette of the Generalitat (DOGC). The reform of the Presidency law has to be published there so that it becomes effective and, under Article 155 of the Constitution, the Government controls the DOGC.

The possibility of a telematic investiture received the support of the 70 deputies independentistas and the vote against all the opposition. The Council of Statutory Guarantees, an advisory body of the Generalitat, considered the reform illegal. From ERC and PDeCAT - now cast within Junts per Catalunya - accepted to approve it as a way to expose the Government but it was not among the plans to use it.

The bet of Junts per Catalunya passes the pressure on Esquerra, which does not It is for any type of action that involves legal problems for its members. The decision to fix the date of a full investiture rests with the president of the Parliament, the Republican Roger Torrent. ERC expects the government to block this route before having to face a second time to say no to Puigdemont.

Last January, Torrent postponed the plenary session in which Puigdemont had to be invested in theory after the Constitutional Court I forbade it. From Junts per Catalunya and the CUP they asked him to disobey. The idea of ​​using the reform of the law to invest the expresident reveals the contradictions of Eduard Pujol. Last week, in an interview with Efe, he assured that the deputies would not be forced to disobey the Constitutional.

The spokesman, however, did not close the door to finally choose a candidate without judicial charges. "We would have to value the investiture of Jordi Sànchez, which we have defended twice. If this possibility can not be realized either, we would have to open the door to a new alternative, "said Pujol.

Internal fissures

All in all, Junts per Catalunya is looking to gain time and aims at the new road. put the ball on the roof of the Spanish Government. "Now a period is opening that invites the State to rectify," Pujol added. The decision also shows the division between the deputies of the PDeCAT and some independents of the Puigdemont list, who bet to elect a candidate without judicial charges and whose Govern allows to lift article 155 of the Constitution. The thesis that has been imposed is that of the circle closest to Puigdemont, which claims to manage the political tempo to give more air to its erosion campaign to the Government of Mariano Rajoy for, he assures, not respecting the result of 21-D. [19659003] Junts per Catalunya also tempts luck. Citizens filed an appeal for protection before the Constitutional Court last week against the delegated votes of Puigdemont and Comín. The Bureau of the Parliament accepted that its current legal situation is comparable to that of the deputies imprisoned in Spain. If the High Court decides to apply precautionary measures and suspends the votes and the CUP insists on abstaining, the independence movement would lose the majority to invest in the second round.

After the meeting, Pujol explained that, when they govern, a special commissioner will be created. to overcome the 155 ". This figure will be, he said, "a door that listens to all those people who have had problems" by the application of the article.