Spain Moves to Take Control Over Catalonia
- 7 years ago
Spain Moves to Take Control Over Catalonia
that We can’t continue in this situation because we are being repressed by the Spanish state.
Emili Ara said that Leave Catalonia!
Addressing the Catalan Parliament in Spanish, Carlos Carrizo, a lawmaker from Ciudadanos, a party
that opposes secession, told Mr. Puigdemont and separatist lawmakers that, far from creating a new Catalan republic, "you will go down in history for having fractured Catalonia and for sinking the institutions of Catalonia." In front of the assembly, he tore apart a copy of the independence resolution.
Before the independence vote, Marta Rovira, a separatist lawmaker, told the assembly
that "today we start on a new path" to build "a better country." She added: "We are creating a country free of repression." Catalan lawmakers who voted for independence could face prosecution for sedition, or even rebellion.
Mr. Puigdemont’s government has been flouting Spain’s Constitution since early September, when separatist
lawmakers voted to hold a binding referendum on independence on Oct. 1 as a key step toward statehood.
Marta Ribas, a Catalan lawmaker, said that Madrid’s use of Article 155 was unjustified, but also argued
that "it’s a mistake to respond to one outrageous act with another outrageous act." She added: "A declaration of independence won’t protect us from the 155, quite the contrary." In the streets outside Parliament in Barcelona, not far from a boisterous pro-independence rally, a few Catalans quietly expressed similar frustrations.
" Mr. Escolar said while smoking a cigarette outside his cafe. that Most of the people who would have voted no did not participate,
that We have to declare independence even if we end up with less autonomy than we have now,
Ester Romero said that Two months ago, I would have said that 43 percent was not enough,
that We can’t continue in this situation because we are being repressed by the Spanish state.
Emili Ara said that Leave Catalonia!
Addressing the Catalan Parliament in Spanish, Carlos Carrizo, a lawmaker from Ciudadanos, a party
that opposes secession, told Mr. Puigdemont and separatist lawmakers that, far from creating a new Catalan republic, "you will go down in history for having fractured Catalonia and for sinking the institutions of Catalonia." In front of the assembly, he tore apart a copy of the independence resolution.
Before the independence vote, Marta Rovira, a separatist lawmaker, told the assembly
that "today we start on a new path" to build "a better country." She added: "We are creating a country free of repression." Catalan lawmakers who voted for independence could face prosecution for sedition, or even rebellion.
Mr. Puigdemont’s government has been flouting Spain’s Constitution since early September, when separatist
lawmakers voted to hold a binding referendum on independence on Oct. 1 as a key step toward statehood.
Marta Ribas, a Catalan lawmaker, said that Madrid’s use of Article 155 was unjustified, but also argued
that "it’s a mistake to respond to one outrageous act with another outrageous act." She added: "A declaration of independence won’t protect us from the 155, quite the contrary." In the streets outside Parliament in Barcelona, not far from a boisterous pro-independence rally, a few Catalans quietly expressed similar frustrations.
" Mr. Escolar said while smoking a cigarette outside his cafe. that Most of the people who would have voted no did not participate,
that We have to declare independence even if we end up with less autonomy than we have now,
Ester Romero said that Two months ago, I would have said that 43 percent was not enough,