Satisfaction at the headquarters of the PP for the ruling of the General Court of the European Union that has withdrawn the immunity of the former president of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont, since his approach coincides with the theses that the PP has defended since the Catalan independence leader he fled to Belgium and Judge Llarena requested his extradition.
A sentence, that of the TGUE, which opens the door to the possible extradition of the main person responsible for the process, who in any case cannot be tried for sedition, after the repeal of that crime, although for embezzlement, whose penalties the government lowered by the Penal Code, by imposition of ERC during the negotiation of the general state budget currently in force.
After learning of the sentence, both the general coordinator of the PP, Elías Bendodo, and the person in charge of Institutional Policy of the lPP, Esteban González Pons, agreed to underline their conviction that the former president of the Generalitat, Carles Puigdemont, “would be pardoned if it depended on Sánchez”, as he already did with the other leaders of the Procés and “I would not hesitate to do so if he were president of the Government” when the occasion arises.
González Pons stressed that the decision also means that “the Spanish judges are right and the legitimate claim of the Spanish citizens is satisfied”, for this reason he considers that it is a “very important step that we have been waiting for a long time”, and a decision “for which we Spanish MEPs have worked hard”.
The number three of the PP, Elías Bendodo, recalled, for his part, in an act held in Malaga, that Pedro Sánchez, in the last elections, in 2019, promised to “bring Puigdemont back to Spain, to render accounts before Justice”, something that in his opinion has been “one of the great lies of sanchismo”, which in his opinion has not done anything to fulfill that promise.
The PP trusts in the European Justice and that the procedure initiated by the Supreme Court will go ahead and Puigdemont is tried and cannot be pardoned by Sánchez, because he will not be in the Government. Bendodo compared the damage caused by Sánchez to the State with “the corrosive effect of aluminosis on the structure of the buildings, but he believes that Spain has resisted because it is strong, although with four more years the country’s constitutional architecture would be in danger.”
