The Court of Justice of the European Union has given its approval to the amnesty law adopted in Spain, but the return of former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont to Spanish soil remains suspended pending further legal proceedings.
The European court's decision sends a positive signal to supporters of the amnesty law, adopted by the Spanish Parliament to settle prosecutions related to the 2017 Catalan independence referendum. The Court ruled that the legislation was compatible with European Union law.
Carles Puigdemont, who went into exile in Belgium after the attempted secession, cannot yet return to Spain. National legal proceedings are still underway and are a condition for his actual return, despite the European Union's approval of the law.
The former regional leader has been facing prosecution for several years. His case crystallizes the tensions between the government of Pedro Sánchez, which negotiated the amnesty law to obtain the support of Catalan separatists in Parliament, and a part of the Spanish judiciary reluctant to apply the text.
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