The general secretary of Junts per Catalunya, Jordi Turull, lamented this Monday that the 1-O referendum continues to be "criminalized" in the resolution of the Supreme Court that dictates the new penalties in the special case of the process in light of the reform of the Penal Code - agreed by PSOE and Esquerra Republicana - which entered into force at the beginning of January.
In this sense, the leader of JxCat, who continues to be disqualified from holding public office in the administration until 2030, has expressed his concern about the situation of all those leaders who are pending trial by the referendum in the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) or in Court 13 of Barcelona. "They will do what they want and how they want to punish those pending trial," Turull warned.
The reform "allows the criminalization of October 1 to continue," stressed the pro-independence leader, who has complained that the Supreme Court "acts as a legislator, a political opinion-maker and a vigilante." "From Junts we have never worked for personal solutions and this resolution worries us for those who are pending trial for 1-O, seeing that the interpretation is the opposite result to that which was intended with the reform of the Penal Code", added the also former minister of the Presdicència.
Likewise, the post-convergent leader has avoided commenting on those members of JxCat whose sentences have expired –Joaquim Forn, Josep Rull and Jordi Sànchez– and their participation in the electoral cycle that will open the municipal elections next May. "It is not about names and surnames, nor about personal calculations, it is about the severity that all those who mobilized on 1-O can face," insisted Turull, who also stressed that his commitment to independence does not is altered at all.
