asked the Constitutional Court to approve drastic measures against the highest authorities of the region
MADRID Spain’s government yesterday launched sharp Catalan separatists ultimatum to promote judicial remedies battery that open the door to fines, suspension of duties until the start of criminal cases to the highest authorities of the region.
and replied to approval in the Catalan Parliament last Wednesday of a resolution that sets out the steps to create an independent republic, a process that had been explicitly banned by the Constitutional Court (TC).
Determined to show harder than ever, President Mariano Rajoy requested the TC to take drastic decisions. The hardest. To consider opening criminal proceedings against the President of Parliament, Carme Forcadell, for allowing the House will vote the secessionist plan knowing that failed to comply with a court order
In addition, the government asks that the president of the Generalitat, Carles Puigdemont, personally warn his ministers and all legislative authorities that can be sanctioned with destitución- even if running any of the measures included in the resolution of the controversy.
“they violated flagrantly the rule of law and constitutional order. Do not let it pass,” said the vice president, Soraya Saenz de Santamaria, announcing the legal counterattack.
he explained that only asked to consider criminal proceedings against Forcadell, because “at the moment is the person clearly involved” in the disobedience of the judgments of the TC. If the court vouch that idea, the prosecution should act in the appropriate bodies. The official could accuse her of crimes punishable by prison sentence
Forcadell, former leader of the most involved in promoting independence NGOs, was quick to respond. “The Spanish government is curtailing freedom of expression Parliament. it is profoundly anti-democratic ask someone to give up their ideas. “
The government Puigdemont also was defiant. “Spain threat, but we will not move out of our way,” said spokesman Minister Neus Munté.
The separatists have a majority of seats, although it did not reach 50% of the vote in regional elections held last September.
the text adopted this week endorses the conclusions of a legislative commission created ad hoc to design the program of “disengagement” from Spain by the unilateral way, without negotiation. He argues that “the people of Catalonia has the legitimacy to start a constituent process itself” and outlines a series of steps that would lead to a referendum to ratify the founding of a republic. In four years of independence boiling is the most concrete toward breaking step.
The current court case began on November 9 last year when the Parliament voted a statement which declared sovereign and established their willingness to move towards separation.
a month later, the TC considered null and demanded the regional authorities refrain from taking measures related to this plan. The separatists went ahead, albeit with less fanfare. In June the judges again intervened to demand the dissolution of the commission created to mark the steps toward independence.
The court will meet in an extraordinary way after tomorrow to discuss the appeals filed by the government of Rajoy. So far they tried to exercise caution not to enlarge the institutional clash.
With the offensive this week, the Catalan independence strengthens its unity at a time of internal crisis. Discrepancies between the ruling front, Together for the Yes (JxS), and the anarchists of the Candidacy of Popular Unity (CUP) foiled the budget approval and endangered the continuity of Puigdemont as president.
the timing challenge also takes into account the political uncertainty in Spain, where Rajoy faces the difficult task of forming a government after seven months of blockade and two general elections without conclusive results.
the opposition parties and the Spanish government functions stranded yesterday in a legal debate in Spain about the possibility that Mariano Rajoy does not submit to a vote of investiture if you do not get enough support to form a government, although the Constitution so provides. Vice President Soraya Saenz de Santamaria said that “it is not time to claim a” investiture debate
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