As EL MUNDO announced exclusively, the Supreme Court has maintained the disqualification as deputy of the still president of the Generalitat, Quim Torra. He has done so against the criteria of the Prosecutor's Office, a criterion that since the election of Dolores Delgado will inevitably be contaminated by governmental partisanship in each of its decisions. The Public Ministry, in line with the precautionary measure presented by the defense of the still president , had been in favor of stopping the execution of the Electoral Board agreement that declared Torra ineligible for public office and incompatible with the exercise of the condition of Deputy in the Parliament. But the Supreme's car is executive and strips Torra of his seat. President Roger Torrent must obey if he does not want to fall into illegality.

After the infamous discredit campaign against the Electoral Board launched by nationalism and the left -from Adriana Lastra to members of the Government such as Alberto Garzón-, the necessary relief from an institution formed by jurists and magistrates of accredited prestige that is limited is now imposed to apply the current electoral law. That campaign was due solely to the panic that the investiture of Sanchez was shipwrecked, but it is not the fault of the Electoral Board that the candidate aspires to invest with the votes of parties affected by serious crimes and ongoing procedures. For the rest, it should be remembered that Torra was convicted of disobedience by a Catalan court, the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia, whose decision was applied to the status of Torra by the competent body and in the only possible sense in which it could be applied.

The disabled, the still president Torra -which will remain until the sentence is firm, but whose vote is no longer counted in the votes of the Parliament, since he is no longer a deputy-, has been challenging in public, refusing to abide by the authority of the Supreme Court, at the same time that the judgment is appealed in that same court, incongruity that results in already classic features of cynicism and cowardice characteristic of Catalan separatism. But de Torra, politician amortized even for his own, may not expect anything else. From whom we should expect much more is from Pedro Sánchez, who however yesterday refused to answer questions about journalists on this matter. The illiberal drift of this president, who seems to have found the last brakes at his will in judges and journalists, begins to be worrisome. The Spanish have the right to know why the disqualification of Torra as a deputy does not also entail his disqualification as a political interlocutor in the eyes of the President of the Government.

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