The MEP and Junts per Catalunya candidate for the European elections in June Toni Comin assured last night that he will return to Catalonia with the former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont on the day the investiture is held after the Catalan elections on May 12.
In an interview on RAC1 Comín justified the decision in that “we went out together and we have always had the will to return together because we understand that our will has a collective and political value, not just a personal one. Politically, it is a return that we have to make together.” .
Continuing with this argument, Comín, who six years ago settled in Belgium to avoid the judicial consequences of the process, stated: “I will return to Catalonia on the day of the investiture with Carles Puigdemont.” He was also convinced that, once approved, the judges will have to apply the amnesty law because, otherwise, “they will be prevaricating.”
On the other hand, the MEP was satisfied with the decision of the lawyer general of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) to agree with Puigdemont and himself regarding the decision of the former president of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani not to allow them access to his seat in July 2019 and ask that the impediment to letting them enter the European Parliament be annulled, a position that may mark the future sentence.
For Comín it is a “big little victory” because it ratifies all his arguments, but he has warned that they must be cautious and “wait for the ruling.”
On the other hand, he criticized the Junts MEP Clara Ponsatí, who has decided to run in the Catalan elections with Alhora, a project she shares with Jordi Graupera. For Comín, Ponsatí’s argument that the amnesty and any pact with the State is ‘a surrender’ does not correspond to reality and, on the contrary, she considers that it constitutes a “victory.” “If this were not the case, the PP, the judiciary and Mr. Felipe González would not be as they are.” “They have been the first to recognize that the amnesty is a great victory for the independence movement and a great concession for Spain,” she added.
