Monday, January 21, 2019

Independentist schism following Puigdemont's appeal to Constitutional Court

The complaint of the expresident to Torrent and the Bureau of Parliament reopens the crisis between JxCat and ERC.


The swords are again high inside the Government and the parties that support it. The appeal filed by Carles Puigdemont before the Constitutional Court against the agreement taken by the Parliamentary Bureau and its president, Roger Torrent, on the suspension of the former president as member has reopened the crisis that drag JxCat and ERC since the failed declaration of independence. A confrontation that emerges intermittently and of which this new struggle is only a new chapter.

The versions of what happened on both sides are totally contradictory. What JxCat says is denied by ERC and vice versa. While sources of the presidency of the Parlament assure that Torrent was not informed of Puigdemont's appeal against the Bureau, the former president's group maintains that it was put on notice and that everything is part of a purely legal strategy to defend the parliamentary rights of the expresident . "We do not want to make blood," they insist. "We respect Puigdemont's decision", they maintain in ERC publicly.

"It is a question of pure juridical logic, known by the president of the Parlament and that will be managed with all normality", explained in Catalunya Ràdio a member of the Catalan Executive Damià Calvet. From Junts per Catalunya it is argued that it is "essential" for Puigdemont to continue the legal journey against Llarena in European courts.

"We have not talked about the issues of the Parliament at the meeting of the Govern. We have not addressed aspects that affect the parliamentary groups, "said the spokesman of the Catalan Executive in the press conference after the meeting of the Executiu Council at the request of journalists. "It is a legal technical requirement to be able to take the matter to international justice," Elsa Artadi said.

Be that as it may, the only clear thing is that both parties live what happened as a disloyalty that adds to the long list of disagreements. The suspension of the deputies dictated by Judge Llarena opened the box of thunder in the Parliament and the matter has not yet been resolved.

Junts per Catalunya and Esquerra Republicana left the House without Plenaries between mid-July and October due to discrepancies on how to apply the suspension of the parliamentarians prosecuted for rebellion after colliding on the concrete case of the expresident the red line with the post-Convergència party.

In October, the general policy debate was put on the air and postponed for the same issue and it was found that the agreement between the two hegemonic families of sovereignty had been closed down. All this was settled with Jordi Sànchez, Jordi Turull, Josep Rull and Puigdemont himself without the right to vote, after not following the formula proposed by the lawyers of the chamber and proposed in the conclusion of the Instruction of Llarena.

PSC and Cs ask the separatists to "stop playing theater" and "govern"

Opposition groups have described as "ridiculous" and "grotesque" the umpteenth crisis among the groups of Govern. "This is a new episode of the deception to which they have subjected Catalonia," said the spokesperson of the PSC, Eva Granados, who stressed the "contradiction" Puigdemont going to the Constitutional Court when he has promoted in the Parliament "initiatives that say that Spanish courts have no competence or legitimacy "in Catalonia" now go to the Constitutional ". "Welcome to the rule of law," added Granados. The PSC voted in the Table together with ERC in the agreement that the expresident has appealed and that left him without the possibility of voting in the plenary session if he did not designate a substitute.

"Stop playing theater, tell the truth and start to govern," said Cs spokesman Carlos Carrizosa.

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