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Toni Comín, after swearing to the Constitution in Congress: “This right to frustration confirms our victory”

El exconsejero fugado de Junts acude a la Junta Electoral para poder ejercer como eurodiputado tras beneficiarse de la amnistía

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Toni Comín, a former Catalan councillor who fled Spanish justice nine years ago, appeared in Madrid to attend the Junta Electoral Central and swear the Spanish Constitution, acquiring full status as a European deputy. Comín downplayed the significance of the formal gesture, calling it "a tantrum of a bad loser" and "a right to tantrum" of the Spanish state. He claimed it was further proof that his side had won.

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