Torra was disqualified from holding office in September after the Spanish Supreme Court upheld his disobedience conviction for failing to remove a banner in favor of Catalan political prisoners and exiles from the Catalan government headquarters building during an election campaign in 2019.

Once he was ousted from power, a two-month time period began to find a replacement president. The pro-independence parties, who hold a majority vote in the chamber, decided not to put forward a candidate and instead head for elections, and no opposition party has presented a potential new president either.

Formal communication to the Parliament is the equivalent act of a failed investiture and therefore the countdown to the election begins.

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