The draft of the ruling of the Constitutional Court (TC) about the appeal for protection presented by the former deputy of United We Can Alberto Rodriguez agrees with the leader when he sees the sentence imposed on him by the Supreme Court as disproportionate for kicking a police officer during a demonstration that took place in 2014 in La Laguna (Tenerife).
According to what ‘La Razón’ has published and legal sources have confirmed to Europa Press, Judge María Luisa Segoviano will take her presentation to the next Plenary Session of the Court of Guarantees, where will defend that the prison sentence that led to the then deputy losing his seat in Congress was disproportionate.
Rodríguez appealed the Supreme Court ruling considering that his fundamental rights were violated during the judicial process. The TC Prosecutor’s Office supported protecting the Canary Islands politician for the withdrawal of the seatnot so in the challenge against the ruling of the TS.
The former deputy has also been waiting since January 2022 for the TC to respond to a precautionary measurer, with which he sought to have his deputy’s record returnedwhich he raised at the same time that he requested protection from the Constitutional Court.
Convicted by the Supreme Court
Rodríguez challenged the agreement adopted on October 22, 2021 by the president of the Lower House, Meritxell Batet, to remove his seat after the Supreme Court convicted him for kicking a police officer during a demonstration that took place in 2014 in La Laguna (Tenerife).
The Supreme Court sentenced Rodríguez to a prison sentence of one month and fifteen days as the author of the crime of attacking a law enforcement agent. with the accessory penalty of special disqualification for the right to passive suffrage during the time of the sentence.
The high court replaced the prison sentence with a 90-day fine with a daily fee of 6 euros (in total, 540 euros)although he clarified that this replacement of the main penalty did not affect the accessory penalty, which was what ultimately led to Rodríguez losing his seat in the Congress of Deputies.
