The Constitutional Court rejected this Thursday the appeal presented by the former president of the Catalan Parliament, Carme Forcadell, against the Supreme Court ruling that sentenced her to eleven years and six months in prison for a crime of sedition in the cause of the you process. The ruling considers that Forcadell’s conduct was not covered by the prerogative of parliamentary inviolability.
Forcadell had based his petition for protection of the Constitutional Court on the argument that the Supreme Court ruling ended the autonomy of the Parliaments. The former president of the Parliament alleged that she had been discriminated against with respect to the rest of the members of the Board of the Chamber, who were not prosecuted for rebellion or convicted of sedition, and requested the annulment of the Supreme Court’s sentence.
Forcadell’s defense – led by lawyer Olga Arderiu – stated that “parliamentary inviolability is articulated as a guarantee of preservation of the parliamentary sphere against jurisdictional power.” In challenging the Supreme Court ruling, he added that the ruling issued had made a clean sweep of this principle, thereby threatening the separation of powers from the State. Now, the former president of the Parliament will appeal to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
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