QUIM TORRA is, since yesterday, the first regional president to be disqualified in more than four decades of democracy.
The Supreme Court ruling disqualifies him from public office for a year and a half, which means that he must leave the Presidency of the Generalitat after having acquired his conviction for disobedience in the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia.
The independence movement reacted as expected from a movement that has its first lever in emotional upheaval.
olítica: fueling victimhood and questioning the rule of law in Spain.
The reality is that the until now Catalan president repeatedly disobeyed the provisions of the Central Electoral Board by placing a banner in favor of imprisoned politicians and for refusing during the electoral period to remove yellow ties from public buildings.
Using everyone's institutions to exploit partisanship, in addition to being a politically unacceptable act, is a crime of extraordinary gravity.
The Supreme Court has not violated the right to freedom of expression of Torra, as argued by his defense during the process, but has condemned the illegal use of the headquarters of the Generalitat. The disqualification of Torra, who has always behaved like a puppet of Puigdemont, he has shaken Catalan politics, which has a full impact on the stability of the whole of Spain, taking into account Sánchez's dependence on secessionist formations.
From now on, ERC assumes, through Pere Aragonès and Roger Torrent, the two main institutional positions of self-government in this community.
In any case, Catalonia is facing institutional paralysis.
With an Executive without powers, the responsible thing would be to go to the polls.
But the determination of the independence movement to exploit the clash with the State is known.
Hence, the foreseeable scenario is the prolongation of the misrule until the next elections, which Torra asked to turn into a plebiscite to "overthrow the Monarchy."
This situation of provisionality will repeat in the already erratic management of the pandemic and will prolong the agony of a disastrous legislature marked by the struggle for separatist hegemony between Junqueras and Puigdemont, beyond the onerous consequences that perpetuating the secessionist defiance, it is burdensome for the general interests that the governance of Spain continues to be tied to the kamikaze road map of sovereignty.
Sánchez maintains his commitment to
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