Catalan regional president Quim Torra gives a press conference in Barcelona on December 19, 2019, after a court in Spain ruled that he was unfit to hold public office for 18 months because he failed to remove separatist symbols from public buildings during an election campaign. – The ruling will only come into effect if it is confirmed by Spain’s Supreme Court, which could take months, and it could trigger an early election in the wealthy northeastern region.
They objected in particular to a banner outside the Catalonian regional government headquarters that read “Freedom for political prisoners and exiles” next to a yellow ribbon indicating support for nine detained Catalan separatist leaders who were sentenced in October to lengthy jail terms over an abortive 2017 independence bid.
Catalonia’s High Court of Justice ruled that Torra had displayed a “forceful, repeated and stubborn resistance” to follow the orders of the electoral board which “had been dictated in accordance with the law”.During his one-day trial last month Torra told the Barcelona court he did not believe the electoral board had the right to order him to remove the symbols because they are “not higher on the hierarchy than the president” of Catalonia.
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