Overview
- On Wednesday, October 7, 2026 the Constitutional Court notified the Supreme Court that the 2026 amnesty applies to the crime of malversación and sent the five-magistrate conservative dissent with its ruling.
- Supreme Court instructor Pablo Llarena immediately lifted national arrest warrants for Carles Puigdemont, Toni Comín and Lluís Puig after receiving the Constitutional Court sentence.
- The Court’s doctrine extends the amnesty to four convicted leaders (Oriol Junqueras, Dolors Bassa, Raül Romeva and Jordi Turull) and to three prosecuted in rebeldía (Puigdemont, Comín and Lluís Puig).
- Puigdemont’s camp says he will wait for the Supreme Court to formally apply the amnesty and for publication in the Boletín Oficial del Estado before returning to Spain, with his lawyer suggesting a possible return after the November 29 general election.
- The transmission of a dissenting voto particular by five conservative magistrates highlights an institutional split that could prompt further legal challenges or political dispute as the Supreme Court prepares to archive and implement the cases from the 2017 trial.