The former president of the Generalitat and leader of Junts, Carles Puigdemont, has demanded the Supreme Court to apply to him, "without further delay," the amnesty law, arguing that his case fits within the "end" of the measure of grace, the "normalization" of Catalonia.
In a written submission presented this Wednesday, which Europa Press has accessed, Puigdemont urges the high court to "initiate the legally provided procedures" to make the amnesty effective regarding the crime of embezzlement for which he continues to be prosecuted, once the Constitutional Court has endorsed his pardon.
In the same document, he requests that a resolution be issued declaring the summary that remains open against him concluded, as he was never tried after leaving Spain following the illegal referendum of October 1, 2017.
Likewise, he asks that the Supreme Court agrees to the definitive lifting of the national arrest and imprisonment orders, which were provisionally suspended by the instructing magistrate, Pablo Llarena, after the decision of the Constitutional Court was known at the beginning of this month, "as well as any other precautionary measures, personal or real agreed upon."
In Puigdemont's view, the Supreme Court must act "with the preferential and urgent character that the content of the law attributes to the application of the amnesty."
In his writing, the independentist leader recalls that "the law pursues institutional, political, and social normalization in Catalonia, a purpose whose legitimacy has been recognized by the Constitutional Court; its serene and unhurried application to the one who presided over the Generalitat also serves that purpose."
Puigdemont has registered these allegations within the five-day period enabled by the Supreme Court for the parties to express themselves after receiving the ruling from the guarantees court that orders him to grant amnesty for the crime of embezzlement.
The former president's move coincides with the decision of the Court of Accounts to apply the amnesty to him in the accounting case that remained open against him and about thirty others for the expenses of the 'procés', as it has not been proven that these disbursements came from public funds of the European Union budget.
The accusation for embezzlement is still in effect for former councilors Toni Comín and Lluís Puig, who were also not tried as they had left Spain, and for former vice president Oriol Junqueras and former councilors Dolors Bassa, Raül Romeva, and Jordi Turull.