These are the elected Presidents of the newly formed Organisations of Local Government

Junts deputy and former minister Josep Rull elected as new President of the Parliament of Catalonia with support from pro-independence parties. Rull was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in 2017 referendum and independence declaration, but was pardoned by Spanish government. Appointments maintain pro-independence majority on board.

Catalan separatists, who suffered defeat in regional elections in mid-May and lost their majority in the regional parliament, won a parliamentary speaker today. This became Josep Rull of the separatist Junts party of former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont. His role is important because he will propose the first candidate for the mandate.

Rull, who was part of the regional government led by Carles Puigdemont and spent more than three years in prison following the referendum on self-determination in 2017, obtained 59 votes against 42 by Paneque, with the support of the separatist formations Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) and Popular Unity Candidacy (CUP). The extreme left also made it possible to elect Rull by abstaining and not voting for the socialist candidate. The election…

Josep Rull, former consellor of the Generalitat and president of the National Council of Junts per Catalunya, has been elected as the new president of the Parliament of Catalonia in the constitutive session of the Chamber that took place on Monday, July 10. Voting. Rull has won by a simple majority in a second vote against the PSC candidate, Silvia Paneque, thanks to the 'yes' votes from the 59 deputies who make up the three independentist forma…

El exconseller y presidente del Consell Nacional de Junts, Josep Rull, ha sido elegido este lunes nuevo presidente del Parlament con el apoyo de Junts, ERC y CUP, que han sumado 59 diputados. Rull ha sido elegido en segunda votación ante Sílvia Paneque (PSC) –que ha obtenido 42– después de que, en la primera, ningún candidato a la presidencia del Parlament haya logrado la mayoría absoluta de la Cámara, un mínimo de 68 diputados de 135. Tras la e…

Junts, ERC and the CUP have reached an agreement to prevent the socialists from controlling the Bureau