The trial against the former Catalan Artur Mas for the 9N will be in February – Investing.com Spain

MADRID (Reuters) – The trial against the former president of Catalan Artur Mas for the convocation of a referendum in November of 2014 on the independence of Catalonia will be in early February, announced Friday, the high Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC).

But, against the TSJC opened oral hearing in October, is accused of grave disobedience and transgression, crimes for which the Prosecutor asks for ten years of disqualification, one more to the demand for their exconsejeras Irene Rigau i Oliver and Joana Ortega i Alemany for the same accusations.

The tribunal, set of 6-feb-10 of the judgment, considered that Mas consented to the various procurement procedures to perform the query despite the fact that the Constitutional Court had overturned the call and ordered a stop to the proceedings of the Catalan administration in that sense.

But then said that the consultation was in the hands of volunteers and the government will not participate in a process in which finally voted almost two million of the 5.5 million catalans, with voting rights.

The consultation, which showed a majority in favor of independence, worsened even more the already tense relationship between the administrations in central and Catalan, after years of booming sovereignty in the region, where nearly 48 percent of the population wants to vote on its relationship with Spain.

“there WILL be NO REFERENDUM”, THE GOVERNMENT SAYS

But it was replaced to the front of the Generalitat by Carles Puigdemont, has raised a new binding consultation on independence for September of 2017, something that the conservative Government of Mariano Rajoy refuses claiming the indissoluble unity of Spain.

“a Referendum of self-determination is not going to be in Spain,” said the minister spokesman of the Government, Iñigo Méndez de Vigo, in the press conference after the council of ministers on Friday.

Mendez de Vigo, responded to a question about the meeting on Friday will celebrate the various sectors of the Catalan society for a Pacte Nacional pel Referèndum, a meeting organized by the chairman of the Catalan language.

“Where have you be all is in the conference of presidents,” said the minister on the appointment of the 17th of January in which the Government wants to address key issues such as the regional finances or the sustainability of pensions.

In a new court decision on Catalonia known on Friday, the Constitutional nullified the three papers of the Parliament intended to handle the creation of the laws of transience legal, tax agency and social security of their own.

in Addition, the high court set aside that part of the appeal of the Spanish Government against the Catalan law on external action, with the understanding that invades compatencias state.

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