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The Constitutional Court has warned Roger Torrent that he will commit a crime if the Catalan Chamber issues resolutions in favor of the right to self-determination or to reprimand King Felipe VI.
The Constitutional Court has issued a new communication to the president of the Parliament of Catalonia, Roger Torrent, and to the rest of the members of the Table on the criminal risk of the ddisobedience to the elite if you ignore or evade their resolutions, as reported by the EFE agency, citing legal sources.
It is the third time in less than a month that the TC has warned Torrent of the possibility of committing a crime, and this time it does so by admitting three incidents of nullity presented by the Spanish Government against two agreements of the Table of the Parliament of Spain. October 22 and 29.
In the first resolution, which admitted for processing a motion for a resolution of response of the sentence of the "procรฉs" the defense of the right to self-determination, the sovereignty of the Catalan people and the disapproval of King Felipe VI. In the second, the requests for reconsideration of the groups PSC, Ciudadanos and PP were rejected.
The TC has suspended at the request of the Spanish Government a section of the resolutions, in which the will to reiterate โas many times as the deputies wish, the defense of the right to self-determination and the claim of the sovereignty of the peoples of Catalonia to decide his political future โ.
The Spanish Executive also requested the Constitutional Court to address the Prosecutor's Office in the case of considering that the members of the Table could commit a crime, although the TC for the moment has refused to agree to this request.
What it does do is personally notify the president of the Catalan chamber, the secretary general, Xavier Muro; and the members of the Board of Trustees Josep Costa, Joan Garcรญa, Eusebi Campdepadrรณs, David Pรฉrez, Laura Vรญlchez and Adriana Delgado.
In several orders it warns them of their obligation to prevent or stop any initiative that involves ignoring or avoiding the agreed suspension.
Torrent says it will not allow censorship in Parliament
For his part, the President of Parliament, Roger torrent, has explained that it will ignore the communications of the Constitutional Court because in the Catalan court "you must be able to talk about everything" and has called for challenges to the resolutions on monarchy or self-determination as "attempts at censorship."
"In the Parliament of Catalonia you should be able to speak, debate and vote on everything. It is the freedom of expression of the deputies and therefore also protects the rights of the citizens whom they represent, "said Torrent, who has assured that neither he nor the Board will prevent the debate and vote on the proposed resolution of ERC, JxCat and the CUP. on the answer to the sentence of the 'procรฉs'.
โThe Government centers on me the responsibility and the decisions of the Parliamentary Board. There is a will to individualize responsibility, but what the Government does not know or understand is that these debates will continue to exist in Catalan society. It is not about one president or another, "he said at a press conference.
For Torrent, "It is dangerous to try to limit parliamentary debates", so that it "stays where it always is," that is, "in defense of the right of parliamentary groups to be able to position themselves in everything."
In addition, he recalled that, "in matters of self-determination, Parliament has passed resolutions since 1989."
Torrent has urged Sรกnchez to stop the "parliamentary persecution" and "Sit down to do politics at a dialogue table".
On the other hand, he has ruled out as "absolute abnormality" the fact that "the TC meets urgently to threaten the Bureau and the President of Parliament again."
