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Catalan Parliament Challenges Court Order to Fly Spanish and Catalan Flags Permanently

The appeal tests whether judges can override the chamber's long‑standing protocol on national symbols.

Overview

  • The Catalan Parliament filed a recurso de reposición on Tuesday, a motion asking the same court to reconsider provisional orders that demand the flags be raised at once and kept up at all times.
  • The court order came from the High Court of Justice of Catalonia after the civic group Impulso Ciudadano brought a contentious‑administrative case seeking constant display of the Spanish flag.
  • Parliament argues it has flown the Spanish and Catalan flags only on plenary days since 1981, a practice written into a 2009 board agreement, saying the flags signal when a session is under way and do not exclude anyone.
  • The chamber says it could next pursue a recurso de casación, a further appeal to a higher court, if the judges reject this bid to halt the measures.
  • The dispute spotlights who controls protocol in Catalonia, with the chamber led by Josep Rull of Junts, and follows its earlier refusal of a request to boost the Spanish flag on grounds it already met the rules.