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The Parliament had just ratified its commitment to "disobedience", the expulsion of the Civil Guard of Catalonia and the "amnesty" to the leaders of the process , when Quim Torra began to applaud from his seat while uttering cries of "freedom."

Most of the independentistas deputies imitated the president who, with his gesture, was not celebrating the renewed insurgent intentions of the Catalan Chamber, but demanding in parliamentary headquarters the release of the seven members of the Defense Committees of the Republic ( CDR ) that they had just entered provisional prison for planning violent actions coinciding with the prompt publication of the Supreme Court ruling.

The head of the Catalan Executive knew that two of those imprisoned had already confessed to the investigators their intention to use the seized explosive material to "make noise" this fall, but that did not prevent him from jarring the independence radicals. An action that for the constitutional deputies of PP and Citizens constituted an institutional endorsement of the Generalitat for the use of "terrorism" to conquer secession and respond to the Supreme Court ruling.

This is how Torra culminated a year of unconditional support for the CoRs, increasingly organized groups that do not comply with the acts of protest and boycott promoted by the Catalan National Assembly ( ANC ) and aim to raise pressure on the State and the secessionist formations themselves -especially ERC and the PDeCat- with actions such as those that have led to the imprisonment of seven of its members.

"The whole family aimed at the CDR"

The president - who boasted that he had "the whole family aimed at the CDR" - began to encourage the violent by taking advantage of the commemoration of the first anniversary of 1-O. While the radicals collapsed Catalonia with road and railroad cuts, Torra encouraged them to microphone in hand with his famous "squeeze, do well to squeeze."

Since then, the replacement of Carles Puigdemont has supported violence to impose self-determination on more occasions, such as when he suggested that Catalonia should imitate the "Slovenian way" to certify its separation from the rest of Spain, giving the result of the illegal referendum of 2017

Although the Balkan country became independent from Yugoslavia after a 10-day war that caused 74 deaths: 44 members of the Yugoslav army, 18 Slovenes and 12 foreigners, Torra proclaimed: "There is no turning back and we are ready to live free. Let's do like them. The Slovenes had it clear. They decided to determine and pull forward on the path of freedom with all the consequences to achieve it. "

"The Slovenian way is our way," said the Catalan president during a visit to Brussels to present, together with Puigdemont, the Consell per la República, the parallel government that the fugitive tried to push unsuccessfully from abroad.

The warmongering language is a constant in the institutional interventions of Torra. Like when he summoned the Catalans to participate in the "combat" of the Diada of 2018 following the example of "the Catalans of 1714 who faithfully defended Catalonia until the last moment of the fight of September 11". Or like when he used his New Year's Eve message to call the "Catalan people" to "revolt."

Author of a book that promotes confrontation

The thought developed by the president during his still short term is faithfully summed up in the articles and works published before his inauguration, when he combined his facet as a historian and collaborator of independentist media with that of the organizer of the Tricentennial expenses on behalf of the then mayor of Barcelona, ​​the nationalist Xavier Trias .

In order to know his ideology, during the debate of his investiture he recommended to Inés Arrimadas his work Els ultims 100 meters The full route for guanyar the Catalan Republic . Work that promotes confrontation by defending that "independence focuses its forces against a single advesario: those who do not want the freedom of their nation" or that only "the independence is a useful citizen" and not a "beast with human form ", as I defined in another article non-separatists.

In his culmen, Torra also demonstrates what he means by "nonviolent action." Paraphrasing the political scientist Gene Sharp and his method of overthrowing dictatorships, Torra bets on three phases to achieve secession: "The protest and persuasion"; "that of non-cooperation through resistance actions with social and economic repercussions such as strikes, boycotts and policies of rejection of authority" and that of "intervention", that is, "the normal alteration of society and the creation of alternative institutions for replace the power of the adversary with parallel forms of popular power. "

In 2014, after the 9-N consultation, Torra considered the phase of non-cooperation and, after the 1-O ruling, committed to developing the rest of the plan. A roadmap with the CDR.

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