The European careers of Catalonia’s former regional President Carles Puigdemont, his former No. 2 Oriol Junqueras and ex-Cabinet member Toni Comín depend on a slew of electoral rules and judicial decisions. Ironically, those give more chances to the jailed Junqueras than to his two colleagues, who fled to Belgium following an unprecedented push for Catalan independence in 2017. The European Parliament says that it’s up to Spain’s electoral board to decide whether Junqueras is on the final list of elected lawmakers that Spanish authorities need to submit to Strasbourg. All votes in the European Parliament need to be cast from the plenary chamber.

Source: thestar May 27, 2019 13:07 UTC