
Spain Electoral Board Disqualifies Catalan President
Spain’s electoral board ordered Friday that Catalan separatist president Quim Torra be disqualified from being a member of Catalonia’s regional parliament, meaning he would lose his presidential post.
The electoral board decision comes after Catalonia’s High Court of Justice last month convicted Torra of disobedience for failing to remove separatist symbols from public buildings during an election campaign and banned him from holding public office for 18 months.
Catalonia’s autonomy statute specifies that the head of the region’s government must be a lawmaker in the regional assembly.
The election board ruling comes as Spain’s acting Prime Minister, Socialist Pedro Sanchez, …