The extreme right of Vox and five imprisoned Catalan separatists have sworn the position in the Spanish Parliament

Atypical day in the Spanish Parliament. The deputies on the right they entered for the first time since 1982 in the Congress of Deputies, where they also took their seat, in an unprecedented way, five imprisoned independence leaders elected parliamentarians who then returned to their cells.

The 24 deputies of the far-right party Vox (representing the 10% of the congress), led by Santiago Abascal, were the first to arrive at the Congress and send a message, they chose the place where the Socialist deputies feel the Constitution of the Cortes, day when the seats are free election. Abascal was sitting strategically just behind the head of the government, the socialist Pedro Sánchez.

Since 1982, when Blas Piñar, from Fuerza Nueva, left his seat in Congress, there was no right wing party in the Spanish parliament.

Released to swear the position

Imprisoned on the outskirts of Madrid, the separatists Oriol Junqueras, Jordi Sanchez, Jordi Turull, Josep Rull and Raul Romeva arrived in police vehicles in Cortes.

The Supreme Court he allowed them to leave prison punctually to take up their duties as parliamentarians as the trial against him continues for the rebellion due to the failure of the Catalan secession process of 2017.

The five Catalan parliamentarians vowed to respect the Constitution, which they allegedly violated, with evasive formulasnuanced or including calls for the freedom of his leader, answered by bullshit or blows on the table of deputies against the independence movement, especially those of Vox.

"From the Republican commitment, as a political prisoner and by legal imperative, I promise"Oriol Junqueras said in front of Congress, almost silenced by the noise of the opposition.

Former vice-president of the Catalan regional government of Carles Puigdemont, currently in Belgium, Junqueras is the principal accused trial pending before the Supreme Court and the prosecution is demanding 25 years in prison for rebellion and embezzlement.

When meeting with Spanish Socialist President Pedro Sanchez, Junqueras expressed his willingness to dialogue: "We must speak," he said.

Spanish Congress and Senate chaired by two Catalans

In a very symbolic way in the middle of political crisis that triggered the failure of the 2017 independence declaration, socialism proposed two Catalans to preside the Congress and the SenateMeritxell Batet and Manuel Cruz.

"They are Catalans in the service of Spain and the Spanish in the service of Cataloniasaid Sanchez, in his speech to the PSOE parliamentary group before the constituent session of parliament.

Meritxell Batet, 46, has become today the first socialist woman to chair the Congress and the third woman who occupies the position since the restoration of democracy after conservatives Luisa Fernanda Rudi and Ana Pastor

Batet was elected with 175 votes for, including those of the Socialists and the left-wing party Podemos, in a hemicycle of 350 deputies.

For the Senate, President Sánchez chose the independent Catalan philosopher Manuel Cruz, after the Catalan separatists vetoed his first bet, Miquel Iceta, leader of the Catalan socialists.