First conflict with Constitutional Court in Sánchez’s mandate

One of the issues that will be on the table at the meeting in La Moncloa by Pedro Sánchez and Quim Torra is the need to ease off the policy of litigation involving the Constitutional Court (TC), but yesterday, just three days before the encounter, Pedro Sánchez opened a new chapter that does nothing to calm the waters. At yesterday’s cabinet meeting, the central government agreed to request the mandated opinion to the Council of State on an appeal to the TC regarding Thursday’s declaration approved in Parliament by JxCat, ERC and the CUP that ratifies that of November 9, 2015 which saw the process begin and which culminated with the October 1 referendum.

Despite the decision, the Deputy PM, Carmen Calvo coincided with Minister of Territories Meritxell Batet that the socialist government maintains the offer to review the 23 pending appeals against Catalan laws and faces the meeting with the president of the Generalitat with “enthusiasm”. Batet has often expressed the need for the legal approach to the Catalan issue to be minimised.

Catalan spokesperson Elsa Artaridi said she was surprised that the Spanish PM “does not ignore a resolution that has no legal effect and that he wants to take it to the Court within 72 hours of receiving Torra.”