This morning, the president of the Catalan Parliament, Roger Torrent, announced that “Jordi Sànchez withdrew from running for president of Generalitat”, so “the third round of consultations to find a new nominee will start tomorrow”. So Catalonia is still at an institutional deadlock: the first nominee, the independence-party Carles Puigdemont, still self-exiled in Belgium, having been declared constitutionally ineligible as a president, the name of Jordi Sànchez, elected member but preventively detained since October 15th on charge of rebellion and mutiny, had been chosen instead. Yesterday, Sànchez, also a nominee of Junts per Catalunya, said he wanted to “withdraw his nomination”: “Honestly, I think this is the best service I can do for the country now”, he wrote in a letter to president Torrent. As relayed by the Spanish media yesterday, Sànchez seems to have stated, at a preliminary hearing in Madrid yesterday, that he wants to give up his political career in return for freedom. Without a president of Generalitat, the region will have no government.