Catalan president confident exiled minister Ponsatí will not be extradited

The Catalan president, Quim Torra, expressed confidence that former Catalan minister Clara Ponsatí will not be extradited talking to the press after a meeting with her on Wednesday.

She is in Edinburgh and is facing an extradition request by the Spanish authorities in Scottish courts.

Hearings to decide on her case will be held starting on July 30 and all the way through August.

Torra said that judges in Scotland will not execute the European arrest warrant against her and that "this will put Spain before its own mirror."

"The one with a problem is the Spanish judiciary," he said, adding that this is because it persecutes politicians "for allowing a vote."