Less than 48 hours from the opening of the new legislature of the European Parliament, the uncertainty about the validation of the MEP seats obtained by Carles Puigdemont, Oriol Junqueras y Toni Comín remains unsolved. The Luxembourg Court, which is the one who should accept the precautionary measures claimed by Puigdemont and Comin's legal teams, should, in any case, give its view today, although it is not definite that it will do so with the little time it has been given.
While this happens, the pro-independence movement travels to the French city of Strasbourg with some 80 coaches and a couple of charter flights. This is in addition to an indeterminate number of vehicles -some of which started the trip this Sunday already reporting problems with the Spanish border police in La Jonquera. The Spanish state, aware of what a defeat before the European justice would mean, has mobilized its diplomacy, the foreign ministry, its head Josep Borrell and even PM Pedro Sánchez. In addition to activating the ministry of justice, public prosecutor's office and the Supreme Court.
The last to sign up was the president of the Partido Popular, Pablo Casado, who asked Pedro Sánchez to take all measures for Carles Puigdemont to be arrested in France and extradited if he attends the Strasbourg Parliament. A curious way of understanding the separation of powers between the executive and the judicial powers, since, in any case, it must be the Supreme Court that reactivates the European arrest warrants (EAWs). It may be nervousness or thinking that the French judges will follow the dictates of what the Spanish Supreme Court says and will not act like Belgian or German justice. Lawyer Gonzalo Boye already challenged the Supreme Court to reactivate the EAWs, convinced that his clients would not have problems if they traveled to Strasbourg.
In any case, all eyes this Monday are put in Luxembourg, in a game where much more than three seats is at stake: the values of democracy that inspired the creation of the European Union.