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Amid shouts of "shame!", Insults and protests, the British Parliament closed for five weeks in an attempt by the 'premier' Boris Johnson to cancel the debate on Brexit and move forward with its plans for EU exit on October 31, "with agreement or without agreement".
A group of Labor deputies raised posters with the word "silenced." One of them, Lloyd Russell-Moyle, even tried to prevent the president of the House of Commons, John Bercow, from leaving his chair, which was finally empty with an ostensible "silenced" sign on the seat.
Bercow himself, who announced his impending resignation on Monday, criticized the "authority of the executive branch" by ordering one of Parliament's longest suspensions in recent decades compared by analysts with that one decreed in 1628 by King Charles I. The longest and most heated session in the recent history of Westminster lasted well into the early hours of Tuesday, between threats of displaced persons and the booing of the opposition towards the seats of the Government.
Boris Johnson ordered the suspension of Parliament until October 14 after losing the motion to hold early elections, the last of a cascade of six humiliating defeats of the 'premier' in his very personal pulse with Westminster. The prime minister secured the support of just 293 deputies to his plans, compared to 434 votes for the necessary majority of two-thirds needed.
Just before, Parliament passed a motion promoted by former Attorney General Dominic Grieve (recently expelled from the Conservative Party) forcing the Government to publish internal documents on the impact of Brexit without agreement and on the temporary suspension of Parliament.
Jeremy Corbyn: "A shameful decision"
"We are facing a shameful decision," denounced opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn, who forced an urgent debate and accused the prime minister of "running away" to avoid parliamentary control.
Johnson's controversial decision is part of his strategy to eliminate new parliamentary pitfalls before October 31, the date set for EU exit. The opposition in block forced, however, 'in extremis' the entry into force of the law to veto Brexit without agreement, which forces Johnson to request a new extension of three months if on October 19 he has not reached a compromise with Brussels .
In the last act of Parliament, at midnight and in the middle of a noisy exchange of expletives and boos between the seats of the Government and the opposition, Boris Johnson anticipated that he will not ask for a new Brexit extension and threw the glove at Jeremy Corbyn: "The surrender law has been passed, you have done everything possible to sabotage the negotiations and now you must support an election."
"I will not approve the dissolution of Parliament as long as the" no agreement "option is on the table," Corbyn said, at the time announcing the opposition's blockade against Johnson's last and desperate attempt. After forcing the temporary suspension of the sessions of the Chambers of Commons, authorized by Queen Elizabeth II and ratified as "legal" by the courts, the "premier" faces an increasingly limited range of options in the next five weeks
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