The president of the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs will ask the European Parliament to withdraw “all perks and rights” available to Carles Puigdemont, Toni Comín and Clara Ponsatí as MEPs. That is, the salary, resources for their offices or the right to vote. In statements to RAC1, after hearing the ruling of the General Court of the EU that withdraws the immunity of the three pro-independence leaders, Vázquez points out that they obtained the MEP certificate “fraudulently” and now wants “all their rights to be withdrawn”. .
“The minutes will not be withdrawn, but perhaps they would not be able to vote or would not have a salary,” he insisted if article 2/36 of the House regulations is applied to them. Vázquez denounced that he has lived through “four complicated years full of threats” as president of the commission that processed the petition request of the three pro-independence MEPs claimed by the Supreme Court and was “prudent” before the sentence, since it is a First instance.
He did highlight that the sentence “defends that the commission acted impeccably and with absolute integrity.” “They have shown that we did a transparent job,” he concluded.
The Ciudadanos leader charged harshly against Puigdemont’s lawyer, Gonzalo Boye, whom he accused of sending “emails and documents to the European Parliament insulting us. He called me impartial, that I pursue democracy, that I am a dictator or that I have ties to Francoism ” .
After the resolution, Vázquez pointed out that now we have to wait for what the Belgian justice decides.” Puigdemont’s defense has announced an appeal before the Court of Justice of the EU, but Vázquez points out that “we have to see what the Spanish justice does and the French one in case they decide to go to Strasbourg”.
