Covid Spain, Constitutional Court rejects lockdown

The Spanish Constitutional Court rejected the March last year’s lockdown measure passed by the government, with a ruling that leaves the door open to appeals from those who have been fined for violating the rules. The Court voted with five votes against and six in favor of the ruling in which it is argued that the emergency was not sufficient to identify in the Constitution the legal basis of the equivalent restrictions, the judges stressed, to a suppression of fundamental rights. The government should have declared more than a state of emergency a state of exception that requires parliamentary approval. The court ruled in response to an appeal lodged by the far-right party Vox.