The Central Electoral Board withdraws the act from a deputy of the CUP

The Central Electoral Board has issued a resolution in which it withdraws the minutes of Pau Juvillà, deputy of the CUP and third secretary of the Parliamentary Table, considering that he cannot occupy the seat after having been sentenced to six months of disqualification for a crime of disobedience.

Juvillà was sentenced in 2021 for not having removed some yellow ties from an office of the Lleida City Council, where he was a councilor, during the April 2019 electoral campaign to which the CUP did not appear.

The electoral body considers that the cause of "supervening ineligibility" concurs in the case and that it is competent to make that decision.

The electoral body welcomes to make the decision to article 6.3 of the LOREG that considers that this ineligibility can occur even if the sentence is not final and has requested that the list run so that Juvillà is relieved. Laura Borràs, president of the Parlament, affirmed this December that she would not follow the instructions of any administrative body and that she would only proceed to withdraw the seat from the anti-capitalist Juvillà if the Supreme Court confirmed the sentence. Juvillà already announced then that he would appeal the ruling.

The Parliament had not received the official notification from the Central Electoral Board this afternoon and the question remains as to how it will proceed from now on and whether or not Juvillà will occupy his seat on Tuesday when the session period is scheduled to resume. With the aim of anticipating the criterion of the electoral body, the Commission of the Statute of the Deputy of the Parliament prepared an opinion to shield the anti-capitalist representative until there is a final sentence based on the fact that he did not breach the regime of incompatibilities described in articles 18 and 24 of the House Rules.

The report prospered with the votes of Junts, ERC, CUP, PSC and En Comú Podem and was endorsed by the Plenary in the last session of the year. The JEC reproaches the Parliament in its resolution for constructing its position ignoring the articles of the LOREG and the fact that it is not necessary for a sentence to be final to remove the act from a deputy.

The case evokes in part what happened with the disqualification of former president Quim Torra when the JEC ordered to withdraw his seat and the then president, Roger Torrent, proceeded to withdraw the minutes.

Faced with the position of the majority of the Chamber, in favor of Juvillà not losing the seat, Vox, Ciudadanos and the PP asked that the minutes be withdrawn.

Carlos Carrizosa, president of the Ciudadanos group, has celebrated the decision of the Electoral Board: “Just like Torra in his day, the deputy of the CUP Juvillà has to leave his seat and Borràs no longer has any tricks left to avoid it.

The JEC, at the request of Cs, makes it clear.

Once again, the democratic rule of law stops the totalitarians”.