• Catalan crisis.Carles Puigdemont maneuver not to lose the Generalitat
  • The debate: The succession of Quim Torra in the Generalitat opens another war between ERC and JxCat
  • The conviction.The TSJC condemns a year and a half of disqualification and a fine of 30,000 euros to Quim Torra for disobedience

It was a maneuver in the design phase, but the possibility that Quim Torra will be disabled next Friday, January 3 and not in a few months, as planned, has forced JxCat to accelerate its plan to prevent ERC from inheriting the presidency of the Generalitat if the head of the Catalan Executive ends up removed from office.

The party led by Carles Puigdemont publicly requested, on Saturday, the Republicans that the successor of Torra be a leader of JxCat and not the vice president of the Government and national coordinator of the Republicans, Pere Aragonès , who, by law, would correspond to assume the presidency of the Generalitat in case of disqualification of the head of the Catalan Executive.

Two days after THE WORLD published the intentions of Puigdemont and Torra, the deputy of JxCat in Congress, Ferran Bel , told ERC that "the reasonable thing is that at the head of the country there was a person who was JxCat" if the president de la Generalitat loses office for disobeying Justice.

The nervousness has been unleashed in the neo-convergent ranks after knowing that the Central Electoral Board ( JEC ) will study in less than a week the resources of the PP and Citizens who claim that Torra be disabled by the highest electoral body without waiting for the Court Supremo resolves the appeal presented by the president against the conviction of disqualification for disobedience issued by the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia on December 19.

The electoral law allows to withdraw the minutes to Torra

PP and Citizens are entitled to the article of the electoral law that allows to withdraw the deputy act to a parliamentarian convicted of a crime against the Administration even if the sentence is not firm. A gap that Puigdemont and Torra did not contemplate and that has forced them to address, in advance, the battle for the succession of the president with his Government partners.

"I am sure that ERC will not want to take advantage of a court ruling to preside, even temporarily or provisionally, the Generalitat", slipped on Saturday the neo-convergent Ferran Bel, who also recalled that JxCat "would remain the most voted force regardless of the resolution".

Bel used, already publicly, the same argument that sources of his party had transferred to this newspaper last Thursday when asked about their intentions to displace ERC from the Vice Presidency of the Government. "We hope that ERC does not take advantage of a state maneuver to cast the president . The polls did not grant the presidency to ERC," they said.

So the announcements were not made in the open, but the threat of the Electoral Board, the possible express disqualification of Torra, has changed everything. Also the attitude of ERC has varied.

ERC, expectant

"We are suffering very little," said sources of the direction of the party that Oriol Junqueras presides in conversation with this newspaper before the JxCat maneuver was made public. On Friday, Republicans were already forced to go to the fore to try to abort the ruse of Puigdemont and Torra.

"We have a government agreement that we have to be able to respect," said ERC spokeswoman Marta Vilalta , who did not want to believe "that the proposal [to take Aragonès away] is firm."

This Saturday, JxCat was responsible for clarifying that it is. That he will do everything possible to prevent the presidency of the Generalitat from ending up in the hands of ERC, which would trigger the public projection of Aragonès and the options of the Republicans to win the next regional elections.

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