The president of the Generalitat, Quim Torra, has appeared in Parliament to launch a new challenge to the acting Executive: "We will have to return to the ballot boxes." He has defended that the independence movement "does not recognize itself" in violence and that it follows the "legitimate path" of non-violent civil disobedience actions, "like Gandhi, Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks." He has accused himself of the "false crime" condemned by the Supreme Court ruling and has promised that Catalonia's budget for 2020 will be "a lever of change." Discover more stories on Business Insider Spain . "If we are sentenced to 100 years in prison for placing ballot boxes, the answer is clear: ballot boxes will have to be removed again." The president of the Generalitat, Quim Torra, has once again launched a challenge to the Government of Spain in the Parliament of Catalonia. In an appearance before the rest of the members of the Chamber, the Catalan president has committed to once again exercising the right to self-determination this term. For this he has spoken of "one engine" and "two tools.
For Torra, the "engine" will be Catalonia's new budgets for 2020, which will be "a lever for social change, a shock program, ambitious in favor of the people who need it most." The two tools are, on the one hand, "the constituent debate that is taking place from civil society and that will be the key that will open the republican doors", and on the other, "a great national agreement" of parties Middle East Phone Number List and entities "to demand the amnesty for those prosecuted for the sovereignty case. Read more: Experts explain why the Tsunami Democràtic app that the independentists are using to coordinate protests can violate the GDPR In his speech, Quim Torra explains that he has decided to incriminate himself after the publication this week of the Supreme Court's ruling on the process, which has set sentences of between 9 and 13 years in prison for most of the accused. Former vice president Oriol Junqueras has been sentenced to 13 years in prison .
With this sentence, not only have our political representatives been condemned: the entire democracy and more than two million people who participated in that referendum have been condemned," he insisted, in reference to the illegalized vote of October 1, 2017. . Torra has emphasized that "no court will prevent any president of the Goern from taking even one step back from the inalienable right of self-determination." "I'm not going to allow it," he concluded. References to street violence after the sentencing of the process Although Torra intervened on Wednesday night to condemn the violence that has been experienced since Monday in the streets of Barcelona, the president appeared this Thursday in Parliament in defense of peaceful sovereignty. "We independentists have always rejected violence and do not recognize ourselves in it," he said, while criticizing attempts to "criminalize non-violent civil disobedience.