By Blanca Rodriguez
MADRID (Reuters) – The former Catalan Artur Mas showed Wednesday convinced that the Government of Madrid will be forced to sit down to negotiate at some point in the process of independence of Catalonia, and trusted his conviction to the economic risk of a rupture unilaterally to Spain and to Europe.
After that last week it was confirmed that he will be judged by their participation in the consultation for independence in the November 9, 2014 [nL8N1CJ3B9], But warned in two acts, with the press in the capital that a departure is not agreed would be unsustainable financially and it would vary the current position of Madrid to refuse to negotiate with Barcelona.
“The next day (for an independence without agreement), the State would lose 20 percent of its GDP and would, with 100 percent of its public debt”, he warned, adding that if independence was not granted, Catalonia would not have “any legal obligation on the Spanish debt”.
“despite the fact that there is tension, at some point in the process end there will be agreements, and will be inevitable (…) When the effect is economic, that’s where it ends not to negotiate”, he added.
But he said that if there was trading, Catalonia could negotiate its participation in the payment of the debt and contribute to “currents of solidarity” with the rest of autonomies, in addition to assessing what has been invested in Spain in the region over the last few decades.
The former president of the Generalitat would not delve, however, into the implications of a rupture unilaterally to the own of Catalonia, which depends on the Spanish State in order to obtain liquidity from 2012.
the leader of The Socialist Demòcrata Europeu Català (PDC), formerly the convergence and union, also emphasized the spirit of pro-european aspirations, despite the fact that according to the rules of the European Union, a republic divided would have to go through a potentially lengthy process to apply for membership of the bloc.
UNSTOPPABLE PROCESS
In any case, But saw unstoppable process towards the independence and although it was open to reach an agreement with the State issues such as the question, the date or the terms of the referendum that Catalonia wants to hold for the coming year, considered non-negotiable the celebration of this query.
“it Would be a suicide for all (not making a query), enquistaríamos this conflict, it makes no sense,” he declared, while acknowledging that “at times the referendum the load the devil.”
polls show a majority of them are very strong in Catalonia in favour of which it is possible to go to the polls to decide the future of the region, but the victory of the catalans in favour of independence is not at all clear.
The mobilization of the sides “pro” and “against” a split would be key to the outcome of the eventual referendum, as More said that the process of declaration of independence would trigger just with that vote more than 50 percent of the electoral census and more than half of this percentage rule in favor of yes.
“Who decides these things is the one who is going to vote,” said Mas, who did not rule out the possibility of aspiring to be the first president of a hypothetical Catalan republic.
assuming the investiture of Mariano Rajoy next week, the leader catalanist said that the weakness with which the Partido Popular will face the new legislature will force them to negotiate, although it showed little optimistic about the possibility of an approach or a proposal attractive and viable from Madrid to Catalonia.
In fact, More charged directly to the Government and the PP “to mount an operation to Catalonia” to discredit the leaders nationalists “based manipulations, deceptions and dossiers false”.
however, he said that all actions launched against responsible catalans as he had a tour limited and pointed out that the more measures there against the sovereignty of catalonia, higher would be the mobilization of the citizenry.
on Wednesday, the Prosecutor’s office of Catalonia filed a complaint against the president of the Parliament, Carme Forcadell, for a crime of disobedience, having allowed a vote on the roadmap to independence that the Constitutional was cancelled.
“The independence of Catalonia is not impossible if the catalans are willing to get to the end,” said Mas.
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