nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20190710-014321-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 190709s2019||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20190710-014321-0 doi eng 342 23 van Elsuwege, Peter Author aut Empty Seats in the European Parliament: What About EU Citizenship? van Elsuwege, Peter Verfassungsblog 2019-07-09 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The European Parliament started its new term with three empty seats. The Catalan politicians Carles Puigdemont, Antoni Comín and Oriol Junqueras got elected in the European Parliamentary elections of 26 May 2019 but the Spanish Central Electoral Commission did not include their names in the list which was notified to the European Parliament on 17 June 2019. The reason is that that they did not appear in person to swear or affirm allegiance to the Spanish Constitution, which is a formal requirement under the Spanish election legislation. The President of the EU General Court dismissed an application of Carles Puigdemont and Antoni Comín for interim measures by referring to the Spanish electoral law. Thereby, however, he completely ignored the EU citizenship dimension of the case. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 EP elections EU citizen rights European Charter of Fundamental Rights Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/empty-seats-in-the-european-parliament-what-about-eu-citizenship/ raw object