Vox has asked the Supreme Court to testify as witnesses the acting second vice president of the Government, Yolanda Díaz and the former deputy of En Común Podem, Jaume Asens, for the meeting they held last Monday with the former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, who fled from the Spanish justice in Belgium since 2017, after the illegal independence referendum was held in Catalonia.
Santiago Abascal’s party has done so by submitting a letter to section number 4 of the Supreme Court (TS), in which it requests the witness statement of Yolanda Díaz and Jaume Asens for their meeting with a “fugitive” from Justice that he is one of the four investigated on which his appearance before the Justice for his trial is pending.
According to the statement issued by Vox, the National Legal Deputy Secretary, headed by Marta Castro, warns in her letter to the Supreme Court that said meeting “tries to disguise a parliamentary courtesy visit” by Yolanda Díaz -arguing that it is carried out in a personal capacity- in order to “disengage from the political and criminal consequences that may arise.”
However, for the aforementioned political formation, the meeting of the members of the Government with Puigdemont, in addition to “eliminating any nuance of the private-personal sphere, the reality is that they have met with a fugitive from justice.”
Vox argues in this sense that both Díaz and Asens are aware of the legal situation in which Puigdemont currently finds himself, and considers that “they -Díaz and Asens- have the obligation to promote the prosecution of crimes and those responsible and not facilitate the commission of new ones”.
Finally, Vox also asks the High Court for an analysis regarding “direct knowledge of Carles Puigdemont’s plans that the vice president could have had directly with the person under investigation”, in order to thus avoid “future plans or criminal acts on the part of the defendant “.
After the meeting, which lasted almost three hours, Yolanda Díaz and Carles Puigdemont issued a joint statement in which they claimed to have agreed to “explore all democratic solutions to unblock the political conflict” in Catalonia.
The “democratic solutions” that the Catalan separatists have proposed so far consist of holding an independence referendum. Also, the approach to return the conflict to politics and take it out of court has usually focused on demanding amnesty for all those involved in the process and in the illegal independence referendum of October 1, 2017.
And just yesterday, Carles Puigdemont made public his demands to start negotiating the investiture of Pedro Sánchez, the first of which, amnesty for all those involved in the process, including those in the 2014 consultation.
In addition, he demanded that a mediator continue the negotiations with the Government, that the latter recognize the legitimacy of the independence movement and all this without renouncing the “unilateral” path to achieve the independence of Catalonia. He even went so far as to affirm that independence is the only possible path.
