The Spanish legal marmot

Spain, that country where the Congress of Deputies passes a law, but a year later, the courts apply it scrupulously: to some affected parties, yes; to others, no. Spain will continue to refuse to apply the law to everyone and will take the ruling of Spain's highest court to the European Court of Justice. No, they want the whole package, and they can have it. déjà vuThe Congress of Deputies approved the Statute of Autonomy in 2006, which was later approved in a referendum, only to be blocked by the Constitutional Court. And now that the Constitutional Court's majority is progressive in 2025 and the amnesty will be approved, it will be the Supreme Court that will stop it. What do all these stories have in common? Catalonia. Its obsessive surveillance, including this botched impulse to bypass the Congress of Deputies and the Constitutional Court to indulge in arresting and imprisoning Puigdemont, even if only for a few days. We would beg the apostles of so-called normalization not to try to make us drink from the gallows, because decades go by, and the only thing that remains normal here is that the enemy's criminal law is applied to Catalonia.