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European Parliament Opens Process to Lift MEP Alvise Pérez’s Immunity

The Spanish Supreme Court’s request now goes to the Legal Affairs Committee for a confidential review that precedes a simple-majority vote.

Overview

  • Parliament President Roberta Metsola informed the Strasbourg plenary that she received the Supreme Court’s petition and referred it to the Committee on Legal Affairs.
  • Spain’s high court has filed two separate suplicatorio requests concerning Pérez, who is under four Supreme Court investigations.
  • One request seeks to investigate alleged social-media harassment of Valencia hate-crimes prosecutor Susana Gisbert.
  • A second request concerns an inquiry into €100,000 that a businessman, identified as Álvaro Romillo (“CryptoSpain”), allegedly provided for SALF’s 2024 European campaign.
  • The Legal Affairs panel may gather information and hear Pérez, then deliberates in private before recommending a plenary decision by simple majority, a process that often lasts around six months.