The trial of ERC deputy
Joan Josep Nuet
for a crime of disobedience as a member of the Parliamentary Board during the Catalan independence challenge has started this Wednesday in the Supreme Court.
During his statement before the Chamber presided over by magistrate Andrés Martínez Arrieta, Nuet has denied having disobeyed the Constitutional Court when he made up to four requests as a member of the Parliamentary Board in relation to the different resolutions that were being approved on the
process.
The ERC deputy has indicated that "he was probably wrong" but that he never wanted to "disobey" the court of guarantees.
"I was convinced that I was neither ignoring nor evading the recommendation made to me by the Constitutional Court (...) They were not aware that I was voting for unconstitutional resolutions," the parliamentarian said repeatedly both to questions from the prosecutor
Javier Zaragoza
and the lawyer of the State,
Rosa María Seoane.
Joan Josep Nuet has tried to emphasize during the interrogation that it was a moment of political confusion and where even the lawyers of the Parliament had doubts about how to act with respect to different initiatives of the Autonomous Chamber.
"The lawyers had doubts, the members of the board had doubts, I had doubts, with my vote I understood that no constitutional mandate was broken; I believed it in an absolutely sincere way," he added.
"I was not a pro-independence"
"My parliamentary group and I did not want independence", "our political objective was not to break the Constitution", "I was not an independentist" or "I was trying to adapt the independentist to the non-independentist" were some of the expressions repeated by the leader of ERC at the oral hearing.
The defendant even said that he "thought" that he was "helping the Constitutionalist" with his actions by making a "thesis that was not constitutional, a unilateral referendum of self-determination, become a constitutional thesis" and stressed that the court of guarantees it did allow the holding of a constitutional referendum as reflected in several resolutions.
The oral hearing began after 10:30 a.m., with the court made up of the judges Martínez Arrieta, as president and speaker, and the judges
Juan Ramón Berdugo, Antonio del Moral, Andrés Palomo, Ana Ferrer, Susana Polo
and
Eduardo of Porres.
The members of the Board of Parliament were sentenced by the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia for a crime of disobedience when processing the resolutions of the 'procés' against the Constitutional to 20 months of disqualification.
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