Catalonia's parliament stripped the head of the region's pro-independence government of his rights as a regional lawmaker, angering supporters who scuffled with police outside the assembly
BARCELONA - Catalonia’s parliament stripped the head of the region’s pro-independence government of his rights as a regional lawmaker on Monday, angering supporters who scuffled with police outside the assembly.
Torra will now be unable to vote in parliament but will remain head of the Catalan government, despite opposition parties’ demands that he be removed from the post, Torrent said. Torra was later handed an 18-month ban from public office for refusing to remove symbols supporting jailed Catalan activists from government buildings during an electoral campaign, and the electoral board stripped Torra of his seat in the Catalan parliament. That decision was upheld by Spain’s Supreme Court last week.
Spain’s Socialist prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, is due to attend a meeting in Barcelona next week to set the agenda for negotiations to address Catalonia’s independence drive.
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