The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has admitted for processing the lawsuit for violation of fundamental rights that the former vice president of the Parliamentary Committee Josep Costa, from JxCat, filed against Spain for the case of disobedience in which he was finally acquitted.

In a resolution, to which EFE has had access this Thursday, the Strasbourg Court communicates to Costa the admission of his claim, for which reason he will send the Spanish Government a series of questions so that it can rule on the rights that the former Vox deputy believes that they have been violated in the case for disobedience to the Constitution that was judged by the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC).

In fact, Costa himself already announced his intention to go to the European courts when the TSJC, in the processing of issues prior to the trial, refused to annul the process for disobedience against him, which for this reason decided to abandon the hearing -in the that he represented himself, as a lawyer – and denounced that the procedure was a “drill”.

Finally, in a decision that the Prosecutor's Office has appealed, the TSJC acquitted Costa and the rest of the defendants -among them the former president of the Parliament and current Minister of Business Roger Torrent- by ruling out that they disobeyed the Constitution when processing sovereignist resolutions and disapproval of the monarchy, because they did not have “continuity” with respect to the unilateral process of independence that began in 2015.

Specifically, Josep Costa alleged in his lawsuit that various articles of the Human Rights Convention had been violated in his process, such as its parliamentary inviolability, which in his opinion amounts to “intolerable interference” in the independence of the Catalan chamber.

He also denounced the demand for a lack of impartiality on the part of the TSJC judges who tried him, as well as the Constitutional Court magistrates who annulled the sovereignist resolutions and disapproval of the monarchy that the Board chaired by Roger Torrent allowed to vote..