The day after Belgian justice suspended the European Arrest Warrants (EAWs) against exiled Catalan politicians Carles Puigdemont and Toni Comín, Spain's State Solicitors have requested to the investigating judge in the pro-independence leaders' case, Pablo Llarena, that he take the same action, suspending the warrants but at the same time requesting the European Parliament to waive the immunity enjoyed by the two elected MEPs "as soon as possible".
This is stated in a report which the Spanish government's legal service has delivered this morning to the Supreme Court judge, who had himself asked all parties in the case to comment on whether the EU Court of Justice ruling of December 19th, which found that jailed Oriol Junqueras had had immunity when he was proclaimed an elected MEP, has "the same effects" in the case of Puigdemont and Comín, both of them also elected to the European Parliament in the May 2019 elections, and with Spanish criminal accusations hanging over them.
The position of the State Solicitors is, in part, contrary to that of the Public Prosecutors who acted in the Supreme Court case. The latter asked the investigating judge to uphold the national and international arrest warrants and the declaration that the Catalan president and his minister were in default through their absence. The prosecutors also requested that the judge petition the European Parliament as soon as possible for the suspension of their parliamentary immunity.
Although Belgian justice has suspended the judicial process around the EAWs, the Spanish state's legal services say in their submission to Llarena that they have not yet received any formal notification of this resolution.