The Central Electoral Board has issued a resolution in which it withdraws the minutes of Pau Juvillà, deputy of the CUP and third secretary of the Parliamentary Table, considering that he cannot occupy the seat after having been sentenced to six months of disqualification for a crime of disobedience. Juvillà was sentenced in 2021 for not having removed some yellow ties from an office of the Lleida City Council, where he was a councilor, during the April 2019 electoral campaign to which the CUP did not appear. The electoral body considers that the cause of “supervening ineligibility” concurs in the case and that it is competent to make that decision.
The electoral body welcomes to make the decision to article 6.3 of the LOREG that considers that this ineligibility can occur even if the sentence is not final and has requested that the list run so that Juvillà is relieved by the candidate who ranked number two in the list for Lleida in the elections of 14-F. After learning of the sentence, Laura Borràs, president of the Parliament, stated that she would not follow the instructions of any administrative body and that she would only proceed to withdraw the seat from the anti-capitalist if the Supreme Court confirmed the sentence. Juvillà already announced then that he would appeal the ruling.
The Parliament had not received the official notification from the JEC this afternoon. Borràs and Juvillà, together with the rest of the pro-independence members of the Table -the Republicans Alba Vergés and Ruben Wagensberg and Aurora Madaula, from Junts- will appear this Friday in the Chamber to establish their position. The CUP has already made progress and has maintained that the only resolution that prevails with Juvillà is the one approved by the Plenary Session of Parliament on December 17, in which it defended that the minutes should be preserved. “The CUP makes a call to defend the sovereignty of the Parliament”, have affirmed the anti-capitalists in the network called under the label #DeixeunosEnPau@pjuvilla.
The anti-capitalists thus allude to the opinion approved by the Commission of the Statute of the Deputy of the Parliament that, anticipating the possible resolution of the JEC, stated that Juvillà should not lose the seat because it did not breach the regime of incompatibilities described in articles 18 and 24 of the Regulation of the camera. The norm does establish that to lose the seat the sentence must be firm. The opinion prospered with the votes of Junts, ERC, CUP and En Comú Podem and also of the Socialists. The report was endorsed by the Plenary in the last session of the year.
The JEC reproaches the Parliament in its resolution for building its position ignoring the articles of the LOREG and the fact that it is not necessary for a sentence to be final to remove the act from a deputy. The case evokes in part what happened with the disqualification of former president Quim Torra when the JEC ordered the removal of his seat and the then president, Roger Torrent, proceeded. Faced with the position of the majority of the Chamber, Vox, Ciudadanos and the PP asked that the minutes be withdrawn. Carlos Carrizosa, president of the Ciudadanos group, has celebrated the decision of the Electoral Board: “Just like Torra in his day, the deputy of the CUP Juvillà has to leave his seat and Borràs no longer has any tricks left to avoid it. The JEC, at the request of Cs, makes it clear. Once again, the democratic rule of law stops the totalitarians”.
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