Forcadell: Justice does not prevent the Parliament debate on the independence – Investing.com Spain

MADRID (Reuters) – the president of The Parliament of Catalonia, Carme Forcadell, defended the Friday before the Justice, that the investigation by disobedience after having allowed in July for a vote on the roadmap for institutional independence of the region.

Several positions in the Catalan Government, including the president Carles Puigdemont, accompanied Forcadell in its multitudinous arrival walk to the Palace of Justice of Catalonia, in the midst of flags and Catalan after a sign that read, “democracy”.

“I’ve made it clear that no court can prevent the Parliament to discuss the independence”, said Forcadell to the press after declaring during a half-hour before the court.

The vote, which is also accused of prevarication to disobey a decision of the Constitutional Court, approved with the votes a majority of Junts Pel Itself, and the CUP the calendar that they expect will culminate in a binding referendum on independence in 2017.

Within its idea that the regional chamber will address the debates that are on the street, Forcadell said that he would act the same as in any country “truly democratic,” may “pursue criminal proceedings, the debate of ideas”.

“Inhabilitarme would be an attack so large a democracy that would be unthinkable,” he said on being asked by a possible conviction.

This front court is one of the facing to the institutions, Spanish and Catalan, in the midst of a climate of tension before the independence demands of Catalan society and the lack of dialogue between the central Government and the regional.

This week, and at the request of the central Government, the Constitutional suspended confiscate the resolutions of the Parliament that promote a consultation of the Catalan people concerning their relationship with Spain, something that according to the polls you want about 48 percent of the population.

The boom sovereignty has led to the president of the Government, Mariano Rajoy, to strengthen the presence of your team in Catalonia, in an attempt to strengthen ties with a region that accounts for one-quarter of the Spanish economy and he feels he brings to Spain than it receives in return.

Despite this, Rajoy has made it clear that it will not allow to consult the Catalan people on their relationship with Spain, arguing that this would go against the indivisibility of the State that collects the Spanish Constitution.

The Spanish Government on Friday defended the independence of the judiciary and requested the president of the Catalan chamber to observe the judicial decisions but do not share them.

“In Spain there is impunity, we are all subjected to the rule of justice, no one can have impunity, minus the q perform a public function,” said the minister spokesman of the Government, Iñigo Méndez de Vigo, in the press conference after the Council of Ministers. 2016-12-16T133023Z_1_LYNXMPECBF10L_RTROPTP_1_SPAIN-CATALONIA.JPG

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