Quim Torra's unilateral proposal to convene a new self-determination referendum at the end of the legislature has ended up breaking ERC's confidence in the president of the Generalitat.

Yesterday, the Vice President of the Government and national coordinator of the Republicans, Pere Aragonès, met with the head of the Catalan Executive to express the "discomfort" of his party, having not been informed that he intended to announce a new vote to "validate the independence ".

Today ERC has gone further. Oriol Junqueras' party has turned to one of its historic leaders, Joan Tardà, to ask Torra to resign and call elections.

" Convene elections as soon as possible to generate a Government that represents broader majorities and a Parliament with greater consensus. We said it weeks ago and today it is absolutely urgent," he wrote on the social networks Tardà.

Republicans have been suggesting for months that the best response to the Supreme Court ruling is to advance the Catalan regional elections, but JxCat refuses. Torra yesterday ruled out dissolving the Parlament and anticipating the elections during the interview granted to TV3.

A unilateral referendum

Quim Torra appeared yesterday in the Parliament to ask separatism to insist on "civil disobedience", demand containment from the Mossos d'Esquadra and guarantee the continuity of the separatist process.

"The polls will have to be put back for self-determination," Torra has proclaimed and then propose to end the legislature "validating independence" and "re-exercising the right to self-determination," that is, by holding a new referendum.

The head of the Catalan Executive has explicitly challenged the Constitutional Court, which had ordered not to continue promoting secession: "No court will prevent this president from continuing initiatives on the right to self-determination," he has argued since the hemicycle after proposing "to give compliance "to the resolution on self-determination that the Catalan Chamber approved on September 26 in the General Policy Debate and that the High Court suspended.

ERC sources have confirmed to EL MUNDO that they had not agreed with Torra on the proposal for the new referendum and that they did not know that the president was going to announce in the Parliament his intention to celebrate it. Nor was the PDeCAT - which has Deputies in the Government as the Minister of Enterprise, Àngels Chacón - aware of a decision that further cracks the Catalan Executive.

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