But in its statement on Pujol. / The Country-LIVE! / Massimiliano Minocri
President of the Generalitat, Artur Mas, has appeared this morning at the Palau de la Generalitat to announce that former President Jordi Pujol waiver honorary positions at CDC and CiU coalition and all the privileges derived from their condicióntras advertise that for 34 years has maintained a hidden fortune in tax havens . Mas Pujol explained that he announced his decision to leave office in the party on Friday at eight o’clock in the morning, hours before his confession in a written statement. Last night, in another conversation, Mas Pujol and they agreed that the former also lose privileges as president except the formal treatment. But these decisions has transmitted his advisers on Tuesday during the weekly cabinet meeting.
Thus, the Catalan president does face some relief to key meeting with the Prime Minister, which will take place on Wednesday” Very honorable “in question
The formal title of” Right Honourable “who get all the presidents of the Generalitat, even after leaving the office, is one of the issues that the Catalan Government has had to address urgent after the confession of Jordi Pujol. The law provides that no one would be removed this treatment and the president of the Generalitat, Artur Mas, has initially welcomed at this point to note that nothing would change in this regard. The rectification has come just three hours later by the Minister of the Presidency, Francesc Homs.
Asked by this point, Mas has said that the treatment protocol is determined by its former condition. “This is regulated, and what we can not give Pujol is being President of the Government for 23 years.” Three hours later, the presidential adviser, Francesc Homs, gave a different version. When asked again about the treatment you receive now Jordi Pujol and if he had voluntarily given up on being addressed as “honorable” Homs said that “has renounced everything, and I mean everything is everything.”Withdrawal of privileges means that the former president will not receive a pension of 86,418 euros per year for having served for 23 years. The decision will also mean having to leave the office in the central Passeig de Gràcia for its former condition, and use daily, as well as the official car and chauffeur.
As explained Mas, Pujol also said he will not participate “never again” in meetings or in the Democratic Convergence Convergence and Union, which came as honorary president. Nor keep the formal title of “honorable”. Mas has recognized that feels great “sorrow and compassion” at the revelations of who has admitted that it is his “political father”. “I have a great staff and as President of the country pain, but what is, former President Pujol has made things very easy,” he said and added: “He is a person who has worked all his life for this country and wants continue to help, is putting maximum facilities. “On the involvement Pujol’s revelation may have about the process sovereigntist, Mas said that” not condition what might happen in the coming months, the sheet route is traced and agreed with many people, “he has said. “This is not for nothing, it’s a tough time, tough, some have personal feelings of pain, but the country is below, in every way,” has settled. In an attempt to disassociate Pujol everyday CiU, Mas has said that the president “Ten years ago and it does not take any major decisions or Convergence and Union or the Government.”
The decision announced today by the president of the Generalitat comes four days after Jordi Pujol revealed that for 34 years has had a hidden fortune in tax havens. On this particular fact, Mas maintains that this is a personal matter of the Pujol family. He also said that “when the dust”, the command of 23-year presidency of Pujol “will have its light and dark, also their assets,”Iceta:” A forced decision “
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The Partit dels Socialistes valued today the resignation of Jordi Pujol its prerogatives as former president of the Generalitat as “a forced decision” after Pujol confess that for 34 years has had a fortune in tax havens. A gesture necessary but insufficient. The first secretary of the PSC, Miquel Iceta believes the Government should also withdraw treatment Pujol very honorable. “Titles give you the law is one thing and you’ve won or lost the title and not very honorable which is appropriate at this time to Jordi Pujol.
Pujol Iceta expected to give explanations to the citizens, and the party the option of requesting a parliamentary hearing reserves if the former president of the Government is silent. Iceta considered Pujol be explained because, contrary to what it says Mas, believes that his confession has political consequences. “To think that is a strictly private family aspect does not conform to reality. We are facing a very serious political scandal, a significant institutions requiring effort to clarify the facts to the end “disrepute.’s First secretary of the PSC have we claimed to CiU to lead the parlamentairos procedures for Pujol talk on camera.
Next Thursday the Catalan Parliament will discuss the appearance of the president to give explanations about the origin and details of the fortune hidden in tax havens. Whatever Mas has hinted today is CiU not support the creation of a commission of inquiry. outset, the Catalan president has not provided any information about fraud Pujol recognized by arguing that defrauded money or any other aspect of the confession are “private affairs Pujol family. “” I do not know the details, do not ask me coresponds and much less comment on it, “he said. Yet the president has himself admitted he was interested in some of these details weeks ago when he read in the press the Early reports on the accounts of the Pujol family offshore.
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