Torra calls for a ‘republic for everyone’

Quim Torra has called for a “republic for everyone” in the parliamentary debate to swear him in as the next President of Catalonia. In his presidential speech, the pro-independence MP said that “for the Spanish people and the Catalan people, freedom means republic.”

Torra’s words come after he came under fire for a series of old tweets and articles in which he criticized Spaniards, and which have been strongly condemned by the parties against independence. "I regret that some tweets taken out of context addressed to the Spanish government offended some people,” Torra said on Monday, in his third apology in just a few days. “I truly regret it.”