Eulàlia Reguant i Cura

Eulàlia Reguant i Cura (born September 19, 1979) is a Catalan politician. From 2015 to 2017 she represented the constituency of Barcelona in the Parliament of Catalonia, where she was a member of the Popular Unity Candidacy (CUP). From 2017 to 2019 she was a councilor in the City Council of Barcelona.

Life and career Reguant earned a degree in mathematics from the University of Barcelona.

Reguant was a candidate in the elections to the Parliament of Catalonia in 2015, after being chosen in the primary elections to represent the Popular Unity Candidacy for the Barcelona constituency. She became a deputy of the XI Legislature of the Parliament of Catalonia.

In October 2017, Reguant left the Parliament of Catalonia to instead become a Councilor in the City Council of Barcelona.

In February 2018 she headed a list that successfully contested the Secretariat of the Popular Unity Candidacy.

Reguant ran in the fourth position on the list of the Popular Unity Candidacy in the November 2019 Spanish general election.

Straight Against Fascism

On 27 February 2019, during the trial of Catalonia independence leaders, the former deputy Antonio Baños and her refused to answer the questions that the far-right party Vox asked as particular indictment. Specifically she mentioned in Spanish the will to "expresse, assuming the consequences, that in front of a machist and xenophobic far-right party, I am not going to answer the questions of Vox". For these facts, in April 2021, the examining magistrate's court (juzgado de instrucción) number 10 of Madrid accepted the case investigation and, along the autumn, requested to the Supreme Court of Spain to declare itself competent to judge it, as far she had parliamentary immunity. While, in parallel, the trial against Antonio Baños continued in an ordinary way During the first phase of the investigation, both prosecuted also refused to answer the questions of Vox, which was part of the indictment of that trial. On 24 November 2021, the high court notified to Reguant's defense that will take the case into account, The paper presented also exclaimed that "is not possible to sanction twice for the same behavior" (principle of non bis in idem), considering that both politicians were already sanctioned in 2019 by the Second Chamber of the Spanish Supreme Court. The event was attended by representatives of neighborhood associations, as well as Òmnium Cultural, the Catalan National Assembly, the Xarxa d'Habitatge de l'Esquerra de l'Eixample, the Casal Popular Lina Òdena, the Committees for the Defense of the Republic and the Union of Students of the Catalan Countries. At her turn, the spokeswoman for the campaign, Núria Morell, denounced "that the far-right sets the direction of the State against independence is a fact that must be denounced and confronted". On 13 January, it was announced that 19 left-wing unions from all over Spain had supported the acquittal campaign by joining a manifesto denouncing the whitewashing of fascism by the Spanish judiciary, the obstacles reiterated to the popular will democratically expressed by the Catalan people and to the consolidation of far-right phenomena around the world. The unions that signed the manifesto in support of Reguant were: Confederación Intersindical Galega, Confederación Central Unitaria Intersindical de Trabajadoras de Galicia, Colectivo Unitario de Trabajadoras y Trabajadores de Aragón, Corriente Sindical d'izquierdas Asturies, ESK Euskal Herria, Intersindical Alternativa de Catalunya, Intersindical Canaria, Intersindical-Catalan Trade Union Confederation, Valencian Intersindical, Langile Abertzaleen Batzordeak (LAB), Sindicato Andaluz de Trabajadores y Trabajadoras, Sindicato Asambleario de Sanidad, Sendicato d'os Treballadors e Treballadoras d'Aragon-Sindicato Obrero Aragones, Sindicato 25 de Marzo Extremadura, Sindicato Asambleario de Sanidad, Solidaridad Obrera, Union of Workers and Inter-Union Workers of the Balearic Islands, STEILAS Euskal Herria. In it, the defendant stated that "disobedience is the best tool to stand up to the powers that want us on the margins" and that it was necessary to "use this case as a boomerang against the State, against this State that denies fundamental rights and systematically persecutes dissent, against this State which continues to persecute all those people who made possible the greatest act of political dissent and rebellion which was, on 1 October, the referendum of self-determination".

On 27 January, the Second Chamber of the Spanish Supreme Court notified her that the trial for serious disobedience would take place on 1 and 2 March 2022, with the acceptance of the evidences presented by the prosecution as well as the defense. Following the news, she publicly announced that she would make the statements in Catalan language. Moreover, they also participated in person Antonio Baños, the CUP deputy Pau Juvillà, the lawyer Norma Pedemonte, the writer Núria Cadenes and the journalist Laia Soldevilla. leaders of the Catalan National Assembly and Òmnium Cultural, and representatives of the associative movement from the neighborhood of Sant Antoni. Other displays of solidarity could be seen in the Balearic Islands when several sovereignist politicians and social activists published a video of support on 27 February and on the afternoon of 1 March they held a rally and read a manifesto in front of the Palma courts, located on Via Alemanya.

On 1 March, the first day of the trial was held, but the court declared its nullity after admitting an error in the processing of the case, as pointed out in the defense brief, and ordered the transfer of the case to the Supreme Prosecutor's Office. At the doors of the court, several elected officials from CUP, deputies Marta Vilalta (ERC), Pilar Calvo (Junts) and Gerardo Pisarello (UP), as well as the president of Òmnium Cultural Xavier Antich and the treasurer of the ANC Carles Gómez, gathered as a show of support. On 17 March, as a result of the declaration of nullity, the Supreme Court of Spain annulled the opening of the oral trial's interlocutory and the indictment of the prosecution, as well as ordered the appointment of an investigating magistrate for the case. This measure happened after the high court recognized his bad instruction for not taking into account her status as a member of a parliament from March 2021 and, therefore, as a court, the procedure could not be processed through an ordinary way as it was done until the fall of 2021.

On 19 May 2022, the Supreme Court announced that the trial for the crime of serious disobedience to authority would take place on 28 September of that same year and that she could testify in Catalan, as she had previously tendered. In response, Reguant assured on his twitter account that he would persist in working on "self-determination, independence and social justice for everyone" and that "neither partial justice, nor fascism, nor espionage will divert us from our goals". Also, CUP denounced that it was a "political trial" which meant "a flagrant violation of ideological freedom and conscience". In statements, CUP's deputy Xavier Pellicer expressed his disagreement with the trial and called it "another strategy to criminalize antifascist and independence ideologies". On 7 October 2022, during the trial, the Supreme Prosecutor's Office reduced the request to a sentence of 4 months in prison and 4 months of disqualification from passive suffrage. Nevertheless, the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court convicted her with a fine of 13,500 euros for committing serious disobedience, after not having responded to Vox during the trial of Catalonia independence leaders, but did not disqualify her from the position of deputy of the Parliament of Catalonia. Two months later, on 7 December 2022, Reguant's defense presented a recurso de amparo to the Constitutional Court of Spain with the argument that fundamental rights had been violated such as the effective judicial protection, the presumption of innocence, the criminal legality, the freedom of expression, the freedom of ideology and the freedom of conscience. Finally, on 12 December 2022, the support committee organized an end-of-campaign event called "The judicial protection of the extreme right" at the University of Barcelona, which was participated by Eulàlia Reguant and Antonio Baños. The event was attended by the spokespersons of ERC's parliamentary group, Marta Vilalta and Jordi Orobitg, and the president of Òmnium Cultural, Xavier Antich.