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The head of the regional government of Catalonia, Quim Torra, at the Palau de la Generalitat in Barcelona, ​​December 19, 2019. REUTERS / Albert Gea

Another blow for the Catalan independence movement: the President of Catalonia, Quim Torra, should be removed from his duties as a deputy. This decision taken Friday by the Spanish Central Election Commission results in his dismissal as head of the regional government, according to the standards of the region.

With our correspondent in Madrid, Diane Cambon

The Spanish Electoral Commission did not wait for the Supreme Court's decision to remove the Catalan President Quim Torra from office.

This lawyer by training, deeply independentist, was condemned in December to 18 months of ineligibility by the Spanish justice for having refused to remove independenceist emblems from the facade of the seat of the regional government.

By appealing to the Supreme Court, Quim Torra hoped to get out, but the Election Commission outstripped him by agreeing with the conservative and far-right parties who demand his dismissal.

For the socialist leader Pedro Sanchez, who is to be invested in the coming days in the Spanish presidency, this " maneuver of the right has been orchestrated to boycott his inauguration ". Without an absolute majority, Sanchez must count on the support of the deputies of the radical left of Podemos, but also of the Catalan separatists .

Quim Torra announced that he will speak at the end of the afternoon in the Regional Parliament, the only institution he officially recognizes.