The Administrative Litigation Chamber of the Supreme Court meets on the 14th to study the appeals filed against the pardons granted by the Government to nine leaders of the process convicted of sedition.
As sources from the High Court confirm to 'La Vanguardia', the magistrates have been summoned to study whether Pedro Sánchez's Executive acted under the law when granting the measure of grace under the argument of recovering social peace in Catalonia.
The Supreme Court has taken two years to resolve this matter. Initially the Chamber rejected that it could be admitted for processing because the appellants – among them the PP, Vox and Ciudadanos – did not have a legitimate interest. A change in the court made it possible to consider an appeal for annulment, which allowed the magistrates to change their own criteria and study the merits.
Next week the magistrates will have to first go into the substance of the question about whether those who have appealed the pardon measure have a legitimate interest in doing so. In the event of a positive result, then it will be assessed whether the proposal of the Minister of Justice at that time, Juan Carlos Campo – currently a magistrate of the Constitutional Court –, later approved by the Council of Ministers, was adequately argued. Although it is a measure of grace, if it is granted, an explanation must be given as to why the prison sentence is being withdrawn from a convicted person.
