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The Constitutional Court (TC) has rejected this Tuesday to suspend the execution of the sentences imposed by the Supreme Court on the leaders of the procés Dolors Bassa, Josep Rull, Jordi Turull, Jordi Sànchez, Jordi Cuixart and Joaquim Forn.

According to legal sources, in the first face-to-face meeting held during the state of alarm decreed by Covid-19, the magistrates have refused to access said precautionary suspensions while the respective appeals for protection are processed.

The jurisprudence of the High Court sets the limit of the sentence to five years in prison to consider the precautionary suspension of execution of the sentence while the amparo claims are resolved. The TC Prosecutor's Office had asked that the request of the pro-independence prisoners not be granted.

The main promoters of 1-O received sentences of more than five years in prison by the Supreme Court for the crimes of sedition and embezzlement of public funds.

The sources consulted explain that the Plenary has not ruled on similar requests made by former Catalan Vice President Oriol Junqueras and former President of Parlament Carme Forcadell because both have recused the 12 magistrates who make up the body and the challenges have not been challenged. still solved. However, the TC is expected to unanimously dismiss these challenges on Wednesday.

Knock down the Catalan Tax Code

On the other hand, the guardian of the Constitution plans to declare this Wednesday unconstitutional part of the Law of the Tax Code of Catalonia in a sentence that will foreseeably be approved unanimously by the magistrates.

According to legal sources informed EL MUNDO, the guarantee court will establish that, according to the Magna Carta, in Spain there is a "single tax system" -in reference to the state-, as well as "unique tax principles of the State" in the cited matter, although it will recognize that the autonomous communities can enjoy their own tax "subsystems" within the national system.

The sentence will resolve an appeal of unconstitutionality promoted by the Government of Mariano Rajoy in full independence challenge led by former President Carles Puigdemont.

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