UK: Thousands protest against suspension of British parliament

Thousands of protesters took to the streets of the UK to protest Boris Johnson's decision suspend the work of Parliament in the weeks preceding Brexit. The Prime Minister's decision was denounced as a "coup d'etat" for his opponents.

From London to Aberdeen in Scotland, via Belfast in Northern Ireland and Swansea in Wales, the anti-return organization "Another Europe is possible" (another Europe is possible) gathered more than thirty concentrations under the slogan "Stop the blow" and "Defend democracy."

The highest concentration took place around noon in the British capital, in front of the Prime Minister's residence on Downing Street. The protests are aimed at "forcing the government to change course," said one of the organizers, Michael Chessum.

For its part, the Momentum movement, the left wing of the opposition Labor Party, has been called to "occupy bridges and block roads".

Intense political week

In the United Kingdom, the Prime Minister has the right to suspend parliament, after obtaining the Queen's consent, and usually do so during the annual convention season of the political parties in September.

But the wrong choice of the moment – with Brexit scheduled for October 31– and the long five-week run has led Johnson's opponents to denounce a move to prevent them from blocking a brutal exit from the EU.

Prime Minister threatens a Brexit hard if you can not reach an agreement with Brussels on the conditions of departure. But he justified his decision to suspend parliament by declaring that he wanted to develop and present his legislative program after taking office at the end of July.

"We can not rely solely on the courts or parliamentary procedure to save the situation, we all have the obligation to make our voices heard", the event organizers said on their website.

These events foreshadow a intense political week in London, where Parliament returns to work on Tuesday. Three legal actions have been initiated against the suspension and MEPs will attempt to legislate Avoid a Brexit without agreement.

The possibility of a motion of censure against the government, which has a majority vote with the support of the 10 deputies of the ultraconservative DUP of Norway.

Actions before the courts

Johnson, who warned his opponents Friday against "harm" to prevent Brexit in October, that would make political legitimacy, he had also announced the day before an acceleration of contacts between British and European negotiators in September.

The goal is to find a solution to the most difficult problem: the Irish safeguard, provided for in the withdrawal treaty signed by Theresa May with the EU, to avoid a return of the border to the island of Ireland, but requires, for eurosceptics, to maintain the country in the European networks.

Tuesday, Scotland's highest civil court will consider a complaint filed by pro-European deputies against the suspension, after refusing to do so Friday in an urgent procedure.

By the way, the former Conservative Prime Minister John Major joined with another complaint, initiated by the businesswoman and activist antibrexit Gina Miller, whose hearing is scheduled for September 5 in London. A third court case will be heard Tuesday by a court in Belfast.

That same day, he is summoned another big event in front of the Westminster Parliament. And a petition to cancel the parliamentary suspension Friday afternoon exceeded 1.6 million signatures.