The Supreme Court could disqualify Quim Torra this week

• Courts: The TSJC condemns Quim Torra to a year and a half of disqualification and a fine of 30,000 euros for disobedience

Quim Torra could live his last days as president of the Generalitat.

Next Thursday the Supreme Court will hold the hearing to study the appeal that the Catalan leader filed against the sentence of the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) that sentenced him to a year and a half of

.

Specifically, Torra failed to comply with the order of the Central Electoral Board during the first general elections in April 2019 to remove a banner from the balcony of the Palau de la Generalitat with a slogan in favor of the independence leaders in prison and a yellow ribbon.

The court must study whether or not to admit Torra's appeal, as requested by the Prosecutor's Office, so that, in case of rejecting it, the firmness of the judgment of the TSJC would be immediate, according to judicial sources, and therefore the Catalan president would be disqualified at that moment.

In the event that the magistrates accept the appeal and enter into assessing whether failing to comply with an order from the Central Electoral Board constitutes disobedience, their decision could be delayed a few days, although the sources consulted

.

The Public Ministry demanded that Torra's disqualification and fine be confirmed and recalled that in the trial the convicted person admitted the crime: "Yes, I disobeyed because it was impossible to comply with an illegal order."

However, his lawyer considers that not complying with this order is not a crime so, in the appeal of the sentence, he assures that the Catalan president is the victim of "an obvious political persecution."

The truth is that the hypothetical scenario that Torra's mandate only has a few days left opens a wide political panorama that

that are in the Government.

From JxCat it is pointed out that the intention of the president is to receive the disqualification while at the head of the Executive since his intention is to appeal the sentence to the European instances, as his lawyer pointed out during the trial.

In this sense, they trust that he may have more weight to achieve a favorable result than his disqualification was while he is president of the Generalitat.

With his decision not to call elections and wait in office for the ruling of the Supreme Court, Torra, who before going to the European justice must expedite the appeal before the Constitutional Court which would not suspend the execution of the sentence, intends to pressure ERC .

The Parliament should present another candidate and JxCat is already pointing out the Republicans not to do so.

In this way, the neoconvergents once again put pressure on Catalan politics to prevail in the battle for the pro-independence electorate, eager for epics, and buy time, due to the deadlines of more than four months for elections, so that Carles Puigdemont's new party be consolidated.

For the moment, ERC continues to pressure Torra to agree on a reaction to the Supreme Court's decision.

The national coordinator of the Republicans and vice president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, once again demanded a "shared strategy" between the pro-independence forces to the possible disqualification of Torra.

"What we would not forgive ourselves and the citizens would not forgive us would be that in the face of an aggression of this magnitude, the independence movement would end up managing it from reproaches," remarked Aragonès, who considers that entities such as Òmnium and the Catalan National Assembly (ANC) are right to denounce the division of the independence movement.

Aragonès is in favor of "avoiding symbolism and that the agreements that exist are realistic, effective and capable of being implemented" and for this reason he considers that "it would be important to avoid the country being in an interim situation for six months."

That is why he again demanded to President Torra that the regional elections be called as soon as possible.

His problem is that time is running out for independence.

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