Barcelona (EFE) warning that replacing them with public disorder would be unconstitutional.
The lawyers for Junqueras, the former president of Parliament Carme Forcadell and the former ministers Raül Romeva and Dolors Bassa have presented their briefs to the Supreme Court on Tuesday, which must review the sentence that sentenced them to up to 13 years in prison in light of the legal reforms promoted by the Government.
In their writings, the lawyers Andreu Van Den Eynde and Olga Arderiu argue that the conviction for sedition should be revoked, because the “will” of the legislator has been to repeal that crime to equate the Spanish Penal Code with the European one, and also that of embezzlement, since they argue that on 1-O there was neither a profit motive nor a diversion of funds to uses other than those foreseen.