The Plenary of the Constitutional Court (TC) has admitted for processing this Tuesday Vox’s appeal against the penal reform that abolished the crime of sedition and modified that of embezzlement.
Legal sources have informed EFE that the plenary session has unanimously approved the admission for processing of the appeal filed by the party chaired by Santiago Abascal. The speaker will be the magistrate of the conservative sector Enrique Arnaldo.
The 11 magistrates of the court have participated in the vote, including the four whom Vox tried to remove due to their “special ties to the Government” who are President Cándido Conde-Pumpido, the magistrates María Luisa Segoviano and Laura Díez in addition to the magistrate Juan Carlos Campo.
In this regard, the last plenary session in February already flatly rejected the challenges because the court opposes this type of initiative when they threaten to leave it without a quorum to resolve.
Vox maintains that the sedition reform “is the culmination of this government’s process of lying… and it is done to stay in power by agreeing with corrupt and coup plotters and it is also done by trampling on the Constitution for the umpteenth time, because this reform involves a covert pardon and a general pardon, both of which are expressly prohibited in the Constitution.”
In addition, the Plenary has also unanimously admitted for processing the question of unconstitutionality raised by the Supreme Court that prevents joint custody when one of the parents is immersed in a procedure of ill-treatment.
And, as expected, it has once again rejected a new cascade of challenges from Vox against four magistrates for a dozen matters, either for declaring the lack of the object and for the loss that occurred in some cases or because they affect the quorum of the court and would mean “an unacceptable stoppage” of its functions.
