Multitudinous protest in Barcelona in favor of social rights – Prensa Latina

29 May 2016 12:08 Madrid, May 29 (Prensa Latina) Several thousand people demonstrated today in Barcelona against the suspension by the Constitutional Court (TC) social laws passed by the Parliament of Catalonia, which were appealed by the Spanish government functions.

 Earlier this month, the TC agreed to process the resources of the conservative executive Mariano Rajoy against three by the legislature voted rules of the autonomous region, aimed at facilitating access to housing and to establish effective equality between men and women.

Amid cries of independence, some 60 thousand people according to the organizers marched through the main streets of the Catalan capital, under the slogan rights are not suspended. decent work, social rights and real democracy

the demonstration was called by some 60 institutions of Catalan civil society, protesting government resources Popular Party (PP) to the TC, who accept admissible led to the temporary suspension of regional policy.

the massive march union, neighborhood and cultural representatives of Catalonia joined, and several political parties, all except the PP and the grouping of center-right Citizens.

Oriol Illa, president of the Taula Third Social Sector, said that the suspended laws, emergency housing, energy poverty and equality, do not pose an invasion of skills, but go against the rights of citizens.

He recalled that the Court constitutional not only stopped the law of emergency housing in Catalonia, but also similar legislation passed in the Spanish autonomous regions of Murcia and the Canary Islands.

This provision demanded that financial institutions give up their empty flats for social housing and seek an assumable vulnerable families before an eviction rent.

an obligation is suspended, which means that the TC defends large holders, is a judgment in his favor, denounced Illa.

While the Catalan government maintains a roadmap to proclaim independence in just over a year, the administration of Rajoy rejected from the outset that separatist plan amid an almost nonexistent institutional relationship over the past four years.

So far, the Palacio de la Moncloa (seat of power) drew more than thirty Catalan standards.

Meanwhile, the Generalitat (Catalan executive) presented 51 resources against state law.

in November 2015, the Catalan Parliament passed a resolution, invalidated by the Constitutional advocating disobedience to the Spanish national institutions.

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