nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20171106-100308 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 171105s2017||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20171106-100308 doi eng 342 23 Queralt Jiménez, Argelia Author aut Still not a Dictatorship: Spanish Law and Judiciary in Times of Constitutional Crisis Queralt Jiménez, Argelia Verfassungsblog 2017-11-05 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier I write these lines after Carles Puigdemont, the deposed Catalan President, and part of his Government have fled to Brussels to evade Spanish justice, after eight ex-Consellers of the Government have been sent to pre-trial detention without bail, and after the appeal from the incarcerated presidents of two civil pro-independence associations ANC and Omnium to be released on conditional parole after 18 days of detention has been rejected. The scenario is terrible, also for those of us that believe that the only possible solution for this crisis is by political negotiation, and it could have been avoided. That being said – the assertion that Spain has turned into a repressive state or even a dictatorship is utterly groundless. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Carles Puigdemont Catalonia secession Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/still-not-a-dictatorship-spanish-law-and-judiciary-in-times-of-constitutional-crisis/ raw object