In his opening conference of the new political term on Thursday in Madrid, Torra insisted he will not “accept” a guilty verdict, and laid out some of the key lines of the potential response from Catalonia that he intends to lead, including civil disobedience, non-violence, and cooperation among the institutions.

Torra ruled out a snap election as a response, arguing that after such a verdict, Catalonia would need to “strengthen” its institutions. As he mentioned some days ago, Torra also called for a “democratic, peaceful confrontation” with Spain, without going into detail on what this would mean. When being asked about the possibility of calling a new independence referendum, he said that the independence camp needs to “find consensus” on how to exercise the right to self-determination.

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