Berga Mayoress abandons her office for a disqualification of the Spanish Inquisition

Mayoress Venturós, from Candidacy of Popular Unity (CUP), was convicted of the crime of disobedience by a Spanish criminal court. She was disqualified from her position for 6 months from yesterday. She had risked up to 2 years in prison if the court had given her the maximum sentence. For cooperating in the organisation of the Referendum she risked an unpredictable punishment, taking into account that the Catalan leaders in prison or exile for the organisation of this Referendum have charges of Rebellion that can imply prison sentences of 30 years or Disobedience, including a disqualification of 5 years.

Venturós, mayor of Berga, a Catalan city between Barcelona (100 km) and the Pyrenees, had disobeyed the Spanish courts at least twice. Firstly, when they ordered her to remove the Catalan flag from her town’s municipal building in 2015. She then refused to show up in Spanish court twice to face the charges. Yesterday she obeyed and left her position as Mayoress.