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The Plenary Session of the Constitutional Court stops the last attempts of the Catalan Parliament to achieve the independence of Catalonia.

According to legal sources to EL MUNDO, the Plenary has admitted for processing on Tuesday the last incidents of sentence execution presented last Friday by the acting Government of Pedro Sánchez against the secessionist ordago promoted by the Catalan autonomous chamber.

Specifically, the High Court has suspended in a precautionary manner the three incidents of execution presented by the State Advocacy against the agreements of the Mesa del Parlament of October 22 and 29 where, on the one hand, it was agreed to give an answer to the sentence condemnatory of the Supreme Court to the independence leaders and, on the other, the desire to reiterate "the defense of the right of self-determination and the claim of the sovereignty of the people of Catalonia to decide their political future" was reflected.

In addition, the Constitutional Court has agreed to personally notify its resolution to the President of the Parliament, Roger Torrent, the Secretary General Xavier Muro and the members of the Bureau who may incur criminal liability if they disobey the judicial mandate.

On October 10, the Constitutional Plenary issued a ruling where he already warned Torrent that he could commit a crime of disobedience if he put the Parlament at the service of separatism. Despite the warning, the president of the Catalan Chamber responded that "he could not turn the Bureau into a censor body, since if we did, we would be limiting the political rights of the deputies, especially the representation."

The legal services of the Government understood that these parliamentary agreements included aspects that have already been declared unconstitutional and void by the Constitutional in sentences 259/2015 and ST TC 136/2018.

For that reason, the State Advocacy once again requested the guarantee court to decree the precautionary suspension of the agreements of the Mesa del Parlament under article 161.2 of the Constitution, which states that the Government may challenge the Constitutional Court provisions and resolutions adopted by the bodies of the autonomous communities. It is an automatic precautionary suspension.

Last October, the deputies of ERC, JxCat and the CUP agreed on a text where they stressed that the Parliament "reiterates and reiterates as many times as the deputies want the rejection of the Monarchy, the defense of the right of self-determination and the claim of the sovereignty of the people of Catalonia to decide their political future. "

In addition, the Mesa del Parlament rejected the reconsideration requests submitted by the parliamentary groups of the PSC, PP and Citizens against this motion.

In addition, last week the TC notified a new sentence underlining the Mesa del Parlament has the power to establish an appropriate filter for the processing of initiatives that can be described as "manifestly unconstitutional." Among its arguments, the Constitutional recalled that it is a repeated doctrine of this body that "on an exceptional basis" the Tables can control the material content of parliamentary initiatives in the case of proposals or propositions "whose unconstitutionality is evident and evident" .

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