(MENAFN) The Catalonian parliament speaker has cancelled a vote to elect an imprisoned leader to be the new regional president.
Speaker Roger Torrent declared while speaking to the chamber a vote on the candidacy of Jordi Turull to not be carried out.
It comes as a Supreme Court judge ordered the imprisonment of the former regional minister with other four separatists with no bail.
The imprisonment had been decided to be imposed due to accusations of taking part in a failed independence attempt Catalonia carried out in October.
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