The Court of Auditors amnesties Puigdemont, Junqueras and Mas for the Government's expenditure during the Process

MadridEnd of the road. The Court of Auditors has finally applied the amnesty to all the leaders of the Procés, including former president Carles Puigdemont and Oriol Junqueras. This was ruled this Wednesday in a judgment, to which ARA has had access, and in which it absolves all former ministers and members of the sub-government of accounting responsibilities for the October 1st referendum. It does so following the resolution of the Court of Justice of the European Union, which considered that there was no impact on the financial interests of the community club in the 2017 vote, and in application of article 1.1 of the amnesty law, which rendered void the criminal, administrative, and accounting responsibility for the consultations and all acts related to November 9th and October 1st from November 2011 to November 2023.

At the same time, the resolution also renders void all precautionary measures that had forced the accused to provide millionaire guarantees as bail for all the expenses that the Court of Auditors considered susceptible to independence, such as, for example, the foreign action of the Generalitat. For this reason, among the accused and now amnestied, there were not only Puigdemont, Junqueras, and the imprisoned former ministers, but also former president Artur Mas, who promoted the November 9th consultation, and part of the two sub-governments, since the entire expenditure of the Generalitat's foreign action from 2011 to 2017 was also under scrutiny.

The list of names is long, as there are a total of 35 people: besides Puigdemont, Junqueras, and Mas, the former ministers Jordi Turull, Dolors Bassa, Toni Comín, Francesc Homs, Neus Munté, Andreu Mas-Colell, Clara Ponsatí, Lluís Puig, and Raül Romeva are also absolved; as well as all the former delegates of the Generalitat abroad during the Procés such as Roger Albinyana, Amadeu Altafaj, Martí Anglada Birulés, or Luca Bellizzi; and a good part of the officials of the sub-government who, due to the powers they held, were placed in the eye of the storm by the Court of Auditors: Antoni Molons, Alberto Royo—who developed public diplomacy from Diplocat—, Josep Ginesta, Joaquim Nin, or Aleix Villatoro, among others.