Now judges and courts have a period of two months to apply the law. Naturally, this period will end when a case is submitted to the European justice system.
He Official state newsletter (BOE) announced this morning the Organic law of amnesty for institutional, political and social normalization in Catalonia, also known as the Amnesty Law, which entered into force at the time of its publication. a period of two months during which judges and courts of appeal can apply the directive.
The decree, signed by King Felipe VI and the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, includes the norm that Congress supported last Thursday with an absolute majority, overriding the Senate’s veto and final green light for approval after several months of processing and negotiations between the executive and the pro-independence groups.
The measure emerged from the PSOE’s pacts with ERC and Junts in return for their support of Sánchez’s investiture and aims to grant amnesty to those involved in the independence mobilizations from November 1, 2011 to November 13, 2023.
It includes both those convicted of the 9 November 2014 consultation and those of the 2017 independence referendum, as well as the archive of the investigations opened by the subsequent riots against the Supreme Court ruling. According to the Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Cortes, Felix Bolaños, The standard includes 372 persons, including, among others, Junts and ERC leaders, the twelve CDR prosecuted and those investigated by ‘Tsunami Democràtic’.
Since the publication of the law next Tuesday, judges and courts have two months to apply it. Naturally, this period will end when a case is submitted to the European justice system. The official newspaper also opens the deadline for filing an appeal against unconstitutionality and in any case the PP has already announced that it will contest this proposal.
Source: EITB
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