The Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) has sentenced Meritxell Serret, Minister of Foreign Action and the European Union of the Generalitat of Catalonia, to at least one yr of disqualification, because the creator of a criminal offense of disobedience within the group and holding of the referendum from 1-O in 2017.
At that point, Serreta headed the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food within the Government led by former President Carles Puidemont. In the sentence he additionally imposes a nice of 12,000 euros.
Serret was tried on March 29, and within the trial she demanded her acquittal, declaring that she obeyed the “democratic mandate” of the Parliament on 1-O in opposition to the necessities of the Constitutional Court (TC).
“I reaffirm that 1-O was not a criminal offense, voting was not a criminal offense. I reaffirm that the independence, republican challenge is a official challenge,” he stated throughout his assertion, through which he solely answered a query from his lawyer, Inigo Iruin.
According to her, the “broad parliamentary majority” in favor of independence in 2017 led them to hold out a pondering judgment, in her phrases, between the mandate to arrange 1-O and the necessities of the TC for it to not be held.
In this sense, he identified that in “no case” have been the pro-independence electoral applications that defended independence and the dedication to carry a referendum challenged. The minister faces a yr of disqualification, and the Prosecutor’s Office additionally requests a nice of 12,000 euros for her for her participation within the preparations for 1-O.
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