Constitutional Court suspends Catalan law to allow investiture of Puigdemont

The Constitutional Court has suspended a law that would have allowed the Catalan parliament to vote in former leader Carles Puigdemont as their regional head in absentia, a court spokesman said yesterday.

The law, passed last week in the Catalan parliament, will be suspended while judges consider whether the proposal breaches the country’s constitution.

The announcement came after an appeal was lodged by the Spanish government, which would have allowed the former leader to be elected at a distance while he waits in Berlin for German courts to rule on a Spanish request to extradite him.

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