Pro-independence parties ready to disobey

Pro-independence parties left wing ERC and radical left CUP reacted this Monday to the Spanish Constitutional Court (TC)’s suspension of the pro-independence roadmap, ratified last week by the Parliament. CUP MP Mireia Vehí stated that the Catalan Chamber ‘will continue to launch the Constitutive Process’of the Catalan Republic and assured that the radical lefties ‘won’t obey the TC’s decision’. Regarding the possibility that the TC may suspend the Parliament’s President Carme Forcadell as well, CUP MP Anna Gabriel warned that this would represent ‘a point of no return’ for the Spanish state and that this would require ‘a countrywide response’. In a similar vein, pro-independence left wing ERC’s spokesman in the Spanish Parliament Joan Tardà lamented the ‘authoritarian way’and the ‘judicial violence’used by the Spanish state. ‘We will remain faithful to the Parliament and if we have to disobey we will do so’, he warned.

The Catalan Minister for Foreign Affairs, Raül Romeva, also lamented the TC’s decision to suspend the pro-independence roadmap and said on twitter that Catalans ‘already suspended the TC on the 27-S’, referring to the last Catalan elections, which resulted in a pro-independence majority in the Parliament.