Tag: amnesty laws
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The Catalan Process of Independence and the Spanish Amnesty Act
— Pau Bossacoma Busquets, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. After being rejected by the upper house of the Spanish Parliament, the Amnesty Act 2024 “for the institutional, political and social normalization in Catalonia” has nonetheless been passed by the lower house with an absolute majority (177 Ayes v.
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Slovakia Tackles Its Constitutional Skeleton in the Closet
—Michal Ovádek, Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, University of Leuven On 31 May 2017, six days before a parliament imposed deadline and 19 years after the fact, the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic (CC) upheld constitutional changes which annulled amnesties introduced by the former strongman prime minister and acting president Vladimír Mečiar (‘Mečiar’s…