Incongruous CJEU ruling
(900 words) In the 2019 European elections, the ‘Lliures per Europa’ (Free for Europe) party of the Spanish-deposed Catalan President Puigdemont and his health minister, Toni Comín, obtained 1,018,435 votes. (After Brexit, Puigdemont his minister of education, Clara Ponsatí, joined them as she lived in Scotland.) Yet they were denied access to the European Parliament