The Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court has rejected the precautionary measure requested by Vox to suspend the investiture of the general secretary of the PSOE in the complaint that it has filed against Pedro Sánchez himself, and against Carles Puigdemont, "as there are no elements that justify the origin of suspension of the parliamentary act aimed at the investiture of the President of the Government,” according to the High Court in a press release.
Yesterday, Vox presented the complaint in which it demanded the “immediate suspension of the investiture” as a precautionary measure in view of, as the group stated, “the circumstances of social alarm” and “the extreme gravity and urgency for the survival of our legal system.”
In an order issued this Wednesday, the Chamber considers that it has received the complaint and appoints Judge Eduardo de Porres as rapporteur to hear the case, in accordance with the previously established schedule. Likewise, it gives Vox a period of five days to provide special power of attorney stating who the complaint and the crime are against.
The court will rule at the time on whether or not to admit the complaint to processing.
The alleged crimes that the party led by Santiago Abascal attributes to the leader of the PSOE and the former president of the Generalitat are bribery, cover-up or collaboration with terrorism, usurpation of functions of the judicial power, and negotiations and activities prohibited to public officials and the abuses in the exercise of their function. In relation to the crime of bribery, he claims criminal responsibility for both the PSOE and Junts, which he describes as "coup organizations."
Vox understands that Sánchez “is committing a crime of bribery in a flagrant and public manner,” and that, in his opinion, “he deserves the immediate criminal reproach of the judiciary” after, as detailed by the ultra formation, “failing to comply with all the rights inherent to office".
