Overview
- Puigdemont’s lawyers submitted a request to the Constitutional Court to halt his national arrest order while his amparo appeal proceeds.
- He grounds the move in the EU court’s advocate general concluding the amnesty law aligns with EU rules and is not a self‑amnesty, though some provisions could conflict with EU law.
- The defense says enforcing the warrant would cause irreparable harm to his rights and seeks immediate notification to national and European judicial and police bodies to stop any detention steps.
- The pending arrest order stems from Supreme Court proceedings led by magistrate Pablo Llarena, and the Constitutional Court admitted the amparo appeal on October 7.
- The court is expected to rule in the first four months of next year, and party sources in Junts and the PSOE tie any renewed political dialogue to deactivation of the arrest orders.