ERC accepts the Spanish inquisition arbitrary suspension of Catalan President Carles Puigdemont and breaks the unity

Catalonia's Republican Left (Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya), agreed with the Spanish Inquisition court on suspending all the prosecuted MPs. This is not the first time ERC opts to obbey Spanish courts arbitrary decisions. In January ERC blocked the re election of Catalan President in a move that the Spanish Constitutional court itself considered unlawful later. The transversal movement Together for Catalonia (Junts per Catalunya, JxCat), loyal to the legitimate government and
led by Carles Puigdemont, accused speaker Roger Torrent (of ERC) of "breaking an agreement" between the parties.

Both parties made their differences clear in the bureau meeting, and the parliament speaker Roger Torrent ended up calling off the plenary, which was to resume on Wednesday.According to JxCat, both ruling forces had agreed on suspending all the involved MPs except for Puigdemont himself, and only for the plenary session which was to resume on Wednesday.

"We regret that parliament speaker Torrent broke the agreement," said JxCat spokesman Eduard Pujol. Puigdemont's group had accepted a temporary suspension for all involved MPs but the former president himself, the only one not in prison. The Supreme Court suspended all six officials because the Spanish Penal Code allows it for individuals prosecuted for rebellion and with a detention order hanging over them. Junts per Catalunya claims that this applies for the five MPs in pre-trial prison, but however not for Puigdemont, as he is free in Germany and a German court rejected rebellion charges for him.

All the pro independence parties were together in the list Junts pel Sí (Together for Yes) in 2015 but ERC break the alliance last December with their own list. They did not understand what Rosa Parks said: "The more we gave in, the more we complied with that kind of treatment, the more oppressive it became."