Still not a Dictatorship: Spanish Law and Judiciary in Times of Constitutional Crisis

Still not a Dictatorship: Spanish Law and Judiciary in Times of Constitutional Crisis Queralt Jiménez, Argelia Author aut Text xx# 2017 Verfassungsblog 2017-11-05 eng I write these lines after Carles Puigdemont, the deposed Catalan President, and part of his Government have fled to Brussels to evade Spanish justice, after eight ex-Consellers of the Government have been sent to pre-trial detention without bail, and after the appeal from the incarcerated presidents of two civil pro-independence associations ANC and Omnium to be released on conditional parole after 18 days of detention has been rejected. The scenario is terrible, also for those of us that believe that the only possible solution for this crisis is by political negotiation, and it could have been avoided. That being said – the assertion that Spain has turned into a repressive state or even a dictatorship is utterly groundless. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Queralt Jiménez, Argelia Carles Puigdemont Catalonia secession 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/still-not-a-dictatorship-spanish-law-and-judiciary-in-times-of-constitutional-crisis/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20171106-100308 171105 10.17176/20171106-100308 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)