Juanma Lamet Madrid

Madrid

Updated Friday, March 15, 2024-13:22

  • Politics Feijóo will try to get Arrimadas to join the electoral campaign in Catalonia as a "symbol of constitutionalism"

  • Catalonia Carles Puigdemont considers returning to Spain and being arrested

Carles Puigdemont

confirmed yesterday to the Junts Executive that he will assume the party's candidacy in the next Catalan elections, called for May 12, but Ciudadanos wants to prevent it.

The 'orange' party

is going to challenge its registration in the electoral roll

, because it considers that it would be "fraudulent", as EL MUNDO has learned.

Because?

Because "he has not resided in Catalonia since he fled in 2017 after 1-O, so he cannot be a candidate in the next 12-M elections."

And that contravenes the regulations, they say in the 'orange' formation.

The Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia states in its article 7 that to be a candidate for the regional elections one must enjoy the political status of Catalan, and to have it one must be registered on the current electoral roll, in accordance with the Electoral Law. they point

Cs will present its allegations before the Electoral Board based on the decision of the Constitutional Court of 2021 by which it annulled several candidacies due to the lack of accreditation of residence for registration in the current census.

This was the case of

Toni Cantó

, who made the jump to the list of the Community of Madrid of the PP, but could not finally attend because he registered after the deadline.

In the case of Puigdemont, although he is registered in Catalonia, it is

obvious that he does not live there

, and Cs clings to that loophole.

"It is evident that he has been on the run for seven years in Belgium and without setting foot in Catalonia. Mr. Puigdemont no longer has the political status of Catalan, which disqualifies him from being a voter and being eligible," the party's general secretary explains to this newspaper. liberal,

Adrián Vázquez

.

"If Puigdemont is registered in Catalonia, it is evident that the registration is fraudulent because he has resided in Waterloo since 2017," he points out.

Indeed, the Junts leader fled Spain on October 29, 2017, two days after unilaterally declaring (and then putting on hold) the independence of Catalonia and the day after being dismissed as president of the Generalitat under article 155 of the Constitution.

"We are going to fight this nonsense, that a fugitive from Justice can simply run for election. If he wants to be a candidate, he already knows the way and goes through a court," adds the head of the liberal delegation in Europe.

Cs recalls that Puigdemont did not collect his MEP certificate in Spain as ordered by the Electoral Board, despite which he was allowed to take possession of his seat in the European Parliament.

"We do not want him to be a candidate as long as he refuses to be held accountable before Justice, not even in Catalonia. We are not going to stop resorting to all the instances in which we can denounce him. And we are doing the same with the law of impunity that the Government has prepared for it and that the European Union can derail," he added.