Brexit: The British parliament gave Boris Johnson a last blow before being suspended

he British parliament he was suspended Tuesday, a decision described as "contempt of the Constitution", but before making a final blow to the Prime Minister Boris Johnson rejecting for the second time its demand for early elections to get out of the blockade of Brexit.

By decision of Johnson, the work of the lower and upper chambers were suspended at dawn and until October 14, two weeks before the date of Brexit, which his detractors denounced as a strategy to gag them .

The traditional suspension ceremony, surrounded by large pumps, was boycotted by the vast majority of parliamentarians in protest, while deputies shouted "Shame, shame!"

"This is not a normal suspension," said John Bercow, Speaker of the House of Commons for 10 years, who had previously announced that he would step down on Oct. 31, citing vague family motives. In previous days he had called Johnson's decision "constitutional contempt".

"I will not ask another postponement"

Before the suspension, MPs had abandoned a government motion to hold elections in mid-October, which required the support of two thirds of the chamber – 650 seats – but got only 293 votes. Last Wednesday, they had already rejected a first proposal in this regard and, as on this occasion, the majority of the opposition abstained.

"Not only have they refused to choose a way forward, but they have now twice denied the British people their right to speak at an election," a spokesman said. Johnson more and more stuck.

After months of calls for elections, the opposition now sees the risk of a "trick" of Johnson or that voters are strengthening the Conservative Party for it to not to ask for a new Brexit postponement.

"We will support the elections if it is clear that we will avoid leaving the EU brutally," Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said.

Johnson came to power in July promising to remove the UK from the bloc at any cost on October 31.

But before the fear of a chaotic Brexit without agreementLegislators urgently approved a law requiring him to ask for a further extension if, on 19 October, he did not reach an acceptable agreement with Brussels or was given the green light by Parliament for a brutal exit.

In addition to avoiding a Brexit brutal, an election after prorogation would have the advantage for the opposition to place Johnson in front of the voters, who would have broken his promise.

But the prime minister insisted Monday: "I will not ask another postponement". And that feeds speculation about your options. To resign? Ignore the law and end up in the courts?

No "realistic" proposal

Johnson, who expelled 21 rebel deputies from his party, lost the parliamentary majority seven weeks after coming to power and hoped that some elections would give him a strong mandate before the European Council of 17 and 18 October, in which he hoped to start a new agreement at 27.

But these claim that there is no real negotiation and that the United Kingdom has not presented any real alternatives to the treaty of withdrawal signed in May in November and rejected three times by the Parliament.

The EU has so far received no "realistic" proposal from London, said Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar at a joint press conference with Johnson in Dublin in the morning .

Johnson asked the EU to withdraw from the agreement the "Irish backup", a mechanism to avoid a new border on the island of Ireland that threatens to the fragile peace agreement of 1998 which ended three decades of bloody conflict in Northern Ireland. He proposed replacing it with "alternative arrangements", but he still had to specify what they would consist of.

"We are going to present ideas, we have time to do it and we are going to approach it with a lot of enthusiasm," he said in Dublin.

But the truth is that the UK is not even sure that the EU will grant it another extension. Any new report must be approved unanimously by the 27 others and the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Yves le Drian, warned that in the "current circumstances", the answer of Paris would be "no".