The European Parliament aborts the maneuver of separatism to hide the ties between Puigdemont and Putin's Russia

The European Parliament has knocked down the maneuver of separatism to remove from its report on "foreign interference" the need to investigate the link between

and

's Russia through an "in-depth investigation" of the "close and regular contacts between Russian officials and Catalan secessionists.

The Irish MEP

very close to Catalan secessionism and belonging to the group La Izquierda -which also includes Bildu, Podemos and Izquieda Unida- had presented an amendment to eliminate the mention of the ties between Puigdemont's circle of trust and the Kremlin.

But the amendment has declined because 470 deputies have voted in favor of maintaining the original text, compared to 97 who have rejected it and 123 who have abstained.

Puigdemont and the rest of the deputies from Junts (

and

), as well as the parliamentarians from ERC, Bildu and Izquierda Unida have supported removing references to Puigdemont from the report, while those from Podemos and the parliamentarian from Anticapitalistas have abstained. .

The report points out that these contacts between Catalan secessionists and Russian leaders are part of a "broader Russian strategy to take advantage of each and every opportunity to manipulate speech in order to promote destabilization" in the states of the Union. European.

"Russian foreign interference seeks to create chaos, inflict mistrust on national governments and the liberal democratic order.

Our democratic systems are questioned and torpedoed when secessionist movements, as in Catalonia, or populists join forces with those who want to misinform and deceive in order to advance their agenda", denounced the MEP for Citizens,

.

“The European Parliament has just approved investigating the links between the Putin regime and Puigdemont.

It will be investigated if there was Russian interference to destabilize Spain.

The nationalist and communist partners of Sánchez have not voted in favor”, denounced the

, assuming that the investigation promoted by the European Parliament will end up taking place.

For this, the report on foreign interference must still be submitted to a final vote, once the secessionist amendment, which has been defeated today, has been knocked down.

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