By Inés Fernández-Pontes

( EurActiv ) — Spain’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday admitted an appeal lodged by self-exiled Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont and two of his former ministers, Antoni Comín, and Lluis Puig.

The Catalan politicians appealed against the Spanish Supreme Court’s decision not to fully apply a controversial amnesty law, which has seen hundreds of members of the Catalan separatist movement pardoned, by upholding embezzlement charges against them.

In 2018, Supreme Court judge Pablo Llarena indicted the three separatist leaders over the misuse of around €1.6 million in public funds to finance the failed 2017 Catalan independence referendum, issuing arrest warrants against them.

Puigdemont, who lives in exile in Belgium, has repeatedly appealed aga

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