The president of Ciudadanos en el Parlament, Carlos Carrizosa, has announced that his group will present an amparo appeal before the Constitutional Court (TC) after the approval in the last plenary session of several resolution proposals that reiterated the "rupturist" will expressed by the independence movement during the months of September and October 2017, initiatives that have been expressly "proscribed" by the judicial rulings of the TC itself.
Carrizosa recalled that the former president of Parliament Roger Torrent, from ERC, is facing trial tomorrow for "violating the fundamental rights of deputies and the Constitution" in the previous legislature and has criticized the fact that the Catalan Chamber once again "subordinates" his agenda, adapting the plenary sessions "to the interests of the separatist parties".
In this sense, Carrizosa has alluded to the "repeated resolutions" of the TC contrary to this type of legislative initiatives of the independence movement, but has gone a step further and has announced that despite the fact that the jurisprudence of the TC gives them the reason to reaffirm that the Parliament cannot reiterate resolutions based on the procés, Ciudadanos will "tighten the nuts" to the Table so that it does not admit new "breakthrough" proposals for processing.
Carrizosa recalled that before the plenary session held on September 28, in which ERC, Junts and CUP resolutions defending the Catalan republic were voted on, his group requested the reconsideration of the Table. "The deputies do not have to vote according to what things", exclaimed the leader of Ciudadanos in this regard, who has also insisted that the delegated vote of former Minister Lluís Puig, "a deputy whom no one has seen around here since he escaped abroad", should not have been computed.
"There is a sentence that says that Puig cannot vote", insisted Carrizosa who has accused the first vice-president, Alba Vergés, who exercises the functions of president, of carrying out "the Borràs doctrine", by which the Puig votes. For this reason, she has said, Citizens will ask the Parliament's lawyers and administrative staff not to count Puig's votes or transfer them to the minutes.
But not only the independence parties have been the object of Carrizosa's taunts, who have also dedicated their darts to the socialists: "We are putting reconsiderations and resources and we are winning them while the PSC, which is in the Table, does nothing and does not defends legality in this Parliament", he lamented, although the socialist members of the governing body, Assumpta Escarp and Ferran Pedret, voted in favor of the latest reconsideration presented by Ciudadanos, rejected by the pro-independence majority of the Table.
"I don't know if the separatists will take selfies like Carles Puigdemont with the resolutions of the TC," Carrizosa ironized. "But we are going to tighten. We are not going to allow our rights to be trampled on without anything happening. We will go to the TC to urge the members of the Table to comply with their resolutions," stressed the leader of Ciudadanos, whose ultimate objective is that the TC "warns the members of the Table of disobedience", socialists included, for their "repeated breaches".
In addition, Ciudadanos considers that the PSOE is also responsible for the situation that it denounces in Parliament, since the Government of Spain "could put an end to this type of resolution" immediately if it appealed to the TC. But "that can only be done by the Government", so, given "the inhibition of the PSC and PSOE", Carrizosa has said, his group "is forced to file another appeal for protection". "We do not want them to agree with us again, but rather that our rights not be violated again," he concluded.
Regarding the crisis between ERC and Junts, Carrizosa has stated that what begins today, Tuesday, could be the last plenary session for some post-convergence ministers and has pointed out, regarding the "controversial consultation in Junts", that it is "picturesque" that they decide on the future of the Government "a few thousand militants" of a political party.
