Catalonia’s High Court of Justice has barred Catalan president Quim Torra from public office for 18 months and also fined him 30,000 euros for disobedience.
The disobedience is failing to remove signs in time that were in favour of the jailed Catalan leaders from the Catalan government’s headquarters during the electoral campaign, as ordered by Spain’s electoral authority (JEC).
Whilst the court on Thursday has made its ruling, Torra can still appeal the decision at the Spanish Supreme Court, the one which tried the 2017 referendum leaders.
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If Torra does not challenge the decision, however, he will be automatically removed from power in the coming days. It is expected that he will appeal the decision.
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