The European Parliament was not competent to call into question the lawfulness of the vacancy resulting from the withdrawal of the mandate of the Catalan pro-independence MEP Oriol Junqueras, said the Vice-President of the General Court of the European Union, Rosario Silva de Lapuerta, in an order delivered on Thursday 8 October (Case C-201/20) (see EUROPE B12402A6).
Mr Junqueras is currently serving a 13-year prison sentence in Spain for sedition and has been stripped of his elective...