Carme Forcadell to run in December 21 elections for ERC
The Catalan Parliament president will be in the candidacy led by jailed minister Oriol Junqueras
Carme Forcadell, the president of Catalan Parliament, was announced today as a candidate in the upcoming December 21 elections by pro-independence left-wing Esquerra Republicana (ERC) party. Forcadell has been one of the Catalan officials to come under pressure from the Spanish judiciary, for allowing pro-independence debate in the chamber over which she presided – and ultimately, the vote on the declaration of independence itself. Indeed, she even spent a day in prison last week, and was only released after paying bail of € 150,000.