The opposition plans to bring Boris Johnson to Justice if he does not delay Brexit

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The British opposition weighs this weekend if it goes to justice in case the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the conservative, Boris Johnson, refuses to ask the European Union (EU) for an extension of Brexit, as established by a new law.

The head of the Government has made it clear that he would rather be "dead in a ditch" rather than requesting a delay of the UK's exit from the EU, set for this October 31, in case there is no agreement between London and Brussels by the 19th of that month.

The crisis for Brexit has deepened, after the opposition took place this week with the control of the parliamentary agenda, always reserved for the Executive, and managed to process a law that vetoes a hard "divorce" of the EU.

Fearing that Johnson will not comply with the new legislation, which would imply that it could be prosecuted, some opposition deputies, including "rebel" conservatives furious with Johnson's strategy, prepare legal measures , according to the BBC.

The independent deputy Dominic Grieve, pro-European expelled from the conservative parliamentary group by Johnson, told that chain that the Premier is behaving like a "spoiled child", with "tantrums" of a child under 4 years , and stressed that, if he does not meet With the law, you can even go to jail.

The deputy "tory" David Lidington, former "number two" of the Government of Theresa May, told the same chain that he does not believe that the prime minister would break the law and said he asked him to let him negotiate an agreement in the European Council of October 17. "Basically, he told me, please give me (time) to the European Council to get there and negotiate an agreement," Lidington added.

The new legislation, which will receive the sanction of the head of state, Queen Elizabeth II, on Monday, was introduced in the House of Commons by Labor deputy Hilary Benn.

That legislative piece establishes that the Prime Minister has until October 19 to approve a possible agreement with the EU in Parliament and, otherwise, must ask the Union for a delay of the "brexit" of three months, until 31 January 2020. If the EU proposes a different date for the extension, then Johnson will have two days to accept it.

'No' to the elections

The opposition has also cut off Johnson's ability to call early general elections on October 15, after that proposal was rejected Wednesday by the House of Commons, which had to give the green light for that date with the polls .

Johnson is determined to call elections because he feels confident of winning them, which would allow him to consummate Brexit with or without agreement this October, more than three years after the British voted in a referendum in favor of EU exit.

The Labor, the Liberal Democrats, the deputies of the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) and the nationalist Welsh of Plaid Cymru yesterday agreed not to support Johnson's electoral proposal when it is voted again on Monday in the House of Commons. As this is an advance of elections, Johnson needs the support of two thirds of the Commons.

That vote will take place before Parliament is suspended next Tuesday or Wednesday until October 14, when the Executive will present a new legislative program.

The conservative leader asked on August 28 permission to Queen Elizabeth II to suspend parliamentary sessions, a prerogative that has angered the opposition and also deputies of the same formation, who interpreted it as a clear determination of the "premier" to take country to a "brexit" without agreement, with economic consequences for the country.

Johnson, who came to power last July after the resignation of Theresa May, expelled from his party, as a measure of punishment, the twenty-one conservative deputies who voted in favor of taking control of the parliamentary agenda.

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