Articles tagged with: Catalan President

07 May 2020 11:28 AM

From left to right, Catalan president Quim Torra, ERC head Oriol Junqueras, and parliament speaker Roger Torrent (by Mariona Puig)

ERC leader calls on president to set date for snap election before being disqualified

Quim Torra awaits a Supreme Court decision that could see him barred from office, possibly prompting a new vote in Catalonia

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24 April 2020 11:56 AM

The Catalan president, Quim Torra, talking before the parliament on April 24, 2020 (by Parliament)

President to call on society for major 'disruptive' post-Covid-19 agreement

Quim Torra wants political parties, and social, scientific and cultural actors to come together

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16 April 2020 02:29 PM

President Quim Torra on a video conference call, April 2, 2020 (photo courtesy of Catalan governement)

Torra hails Germany’s decentralized model in dealing with Covid-19 as opposed to Spain

Catalan president highlights the central European country’s low death rate in a briefing with international press

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29 March 2020 04:00 PM

Image of the Catalan president, Quim Torra, during a regional leaders' meeting with Spain's president, Pedro Sánchez, on March 29, 2020 (by Catalan government/Rubén Moreno)

Catalonia demands economic and social plan for lockdown and its aftermath

Moratorium in mortgages and credits, removing deficit limit, suspending taxes and payment of basic supplies, and guaranteeing basic income, among measures

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29 March 2020 11:50 AM

Catalan president Quim Torra during the meeting held with Spain's regional leaders and president on March 22, 2020 (Jordi Bedmar/Govern)

President Torra on Spain's enhanced lockdown: 'Thanks for accepting our demands'

"If a total lockdown is declared now, it is because it didn't exist before," says the Catalan leader, who has been asking for such measure since March 13

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