• Judgment.The TSJC condemns a year and a half of disqualification and a fine of 30,000 euros to Torra
  • Torra: "I disobeyed the order of the JEC since it was illegal and impossible to comply"
  • Recidivism.TSJC urges to investigate whether Torra committed a crime again in September by not removing the banner with the bow
  • Future.Torra will only be disabled with a final sentence but may not be a candidate in case of conviction

Quim Torra will respond to his disqualification by political and judicial means. The president of the Generalitat intends that the Parliament reaffirms it in office through a kind of investiture vote.

"I will not be disabled by a court with political motivations, because only the Parliament of Catalonia can do it," Torra has defended in an institutional statement to respond to the decision of the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC), which disables him for office public for a year and a half and imposes a fine of 30,000 euros for refusing to lift the banner of support for independence prisoners as ordered by the Central Electoral Board .

Torra has called on the parliamentary groups that gave him support - "and those who want to oppose repression and the use of Justice to do politics" - to express that "support" "in a vote in the Parliament." "This is to make it very clear that the presidents of this country are not decided by the courts with irregular procedures, politicized and with sentences already drafted before the trial," said the first head of the Catalan Executive convicted in office.

Torra also did not want to miss the opportunity that European Justice has given him, by determining that the ERC leader, Oriol Junqueras, had the right to collect his MEP record despite being then in provisional prison. In this regard, the president of the Generalitat has clarified that, after presenting an appeal to the Supreme Court and assuming that he will ratify his disqualification, he will also ask the European Justice to "fix a position" on his case. «We must end this case in the heart of Europe. My confidence in the Spanish Justice is void », the president has settled.

The Parliament has convened an emergency meeting of the Board of Spokespersons to analyze the latest judicial events and after knowing Torra's claim that the Chamber again express its support. For the moment, he has not attended the president's request and has limited himself to approving an institutional declaration - signed by JxCat, ERC and the CUP - in which "he states that the State intends to impose what is incapable of winning by judicial means. at the polls, alter parliamentary arithmetic and nullify the sovereignty of the people of Catalonia through the disqualification of President Quim Torra. "

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