Empty Seats in the European Parliament: What About EU Citizenship? van Elsuwege, Peter Author aut Text xx# 2019 Verfassungsblog 2019-07-09 eng
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 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. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 van Elsuwege, Peter funded by the government EP elections EU citizen rights European Charter of Fundamental Rights 342 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/empty-seats-in-the-european-parliament-what-about-eu-citizenship/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20190710-014321-0 190709 10.17176/20190710-014321-0 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)