Government and opposition coincide, the ruling of the Superior Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) will mean that the president of the Generalitat and the other officials of the fugitive Procès will have to appear before the Spanish Justice, because the Belgian justice will not be able to deny the European arrest warrants, since there are no systemic rulings in the Spanish Justice, nor are there indications that the fundamental rights of those affected may be violated, nor can the Belgian justice be able to question which court should issue the arrest warrant.
The Minister Spokesperson for the Government, Isabel Rodríguez, in the press conference after the Council of Ministers, stressed that the CJEU ruling "endorses the Spanish legal system", and with this it can be said, she affirmed "that it will make it easier for the Mr. Puigdemont renders account before the Spanish justice”. Rodríguez stressed that this has always been the position of the Spanish Government regarding the situation of Carles Puigdemont and, in this sense, expressed the executive's “maximum respect” for the pronouncements of justice, in this case, European justice.
From the opposition, the PP, Ciudadanos and Vox are in the same line and are pleased that the European Court of Justice has agreed with the Spanish Justice. The spokesperson for the Popular Group in Congress, Cuca Gamarra, considers that the ruling of the European Court of Justice demonstrates that the rule of law "and that, in the end, the former president of the Generalitat, Carles Puigdemont and other fleeing 1- Or they will have to "render accounts before the Spanish Justice, since there are none of the causes that the court itself indicates as the only ones for which the Belgian justice can deny the delivery of those processed by the Procès.
For their part, Ciudadanos and Vox consider that the CJEU ruling dictates that the Belgian courts cannot reject the handover of those accused by the process claimed to be tried in Spain if it does not demonstrate "systemic or generalized deficiencies" in the functioning of the judicial system. Spanish.
At a press conference from Congress, the coordinator of the Ciudadanos parliamentary group, Guillermo Díaz, stressed that the court ruling shows that Spain is a democratic state of law that "functions perfectly" and that Puigdemont "must be handed over" to justice Spanish. "We hope that the Government does not get to work to make things easier for Puigdemont, it should be celebrating a decision like this," Díaz added, stressing that the Executive of Pedro Sánchez would do so "if it were intelligent." "He would be celebrating with us this triumph of the Rule of Law" but "his problem is the dilemmas: either his partners or the Rule of Law, or Sánchez's chair or the defense of freedom", he stressed.
The Ciudadanos management has also celebrated the ruling of the CJUE. The political spokesperson, Patricia Guasp, has highlighted through her Twitter account that the pronouncement "removes Belgium from reason" and "Puigdemont will have to be handed over to Spain and comply with the Euroorder".
The Orange Secretary General, Adrián Vázquez, who is also a spokesperson for Ciudadanos in the European Parliament, has expressed himself along the same lines, while the spokesperson for the parliamentary group, Inés Arrimadas, has called it "sad" that Europe "defends more" Spanish judges than the Government of Spain. "Great news", she has written on the aforementioned social network.
Vox's spokesman in Parliament, Ignacio Garriga, has assured that the CJEU's decision "approaches" the extradition of Carles Puigdemont, Toni Comín, Clara Ponsatí and Lluís Puig. "It has been shown that Pablo Llarena was right and that Belgium's denials were completely unfounded," he remarked at a press conference. In addition, Garriga trusted that he "soon" will be able to see the exiles "rendering accounts before the justice system like any other citizen."
