it Was cold, minus 9 degrees, were not yet 8 in the morning and 170 buses came to the center of Barcelona, explicablemente the accesses to the city were collapsed. Forty thousand people from the 4 provinces of catalonia, lying in the vicinity of the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia, was the day on which it began the trial of Artur Mas, the former president of the Generalitat, who dared to give voice to his people. And his people came to support him.
it Was Monday, working day and 40 thousand people -according to the guardia urbana of Barcelona – had put aside their duties for a great show to the rest of Spain than in Catalonia, as in Fuente Ovejuna, "all". And is that to Most he is accused of “grave disobedience and transgression,” for having permitted to carry out the consultation of November 9, 2014 (9N). Through the same was sought to know if the catalans wanted a referendum to ask for the will of independence from Spain.
for a few years, each September 11-the day of your national holiday – Catalonia, goes out into the streets to demonstrate peacefully to demand the independence of their territory and after a series of social actions, education and policies, carried out during all this time; the catalans feel that the time has come to know for certain how many of their citizens want independence. However, this is impossible. The central government under the Constitution is denied Catalonia the right to hold a referendum in conditions.
to Be Catalan and ‘indepe’ is almost considered a crime of treason by the bulk of Spanish. They say that Catalonia is showing, because it calls for an "economic agreement" with Basque, or one that allows you to manage their own resources, and also branded as fascist and a small town for wanting to live in Catalan and demand the respect of their cultural traits. And there are those who think that their rulers are criminals and that they are better off on the bench of the defendants that in making policy.
"as long As I’m president of the government, no one will break the unity of Spain (Mariano Rajoy dixit, November 8, 2014)
For phrases such as these, or as one that was made famous during the Franco dictatorship, "Spain, a large and free" -the current rallying cry of the groups of the extreme right in spain – from Spain’s deep, things look less welcomed. “Pressure, shtick, show”, these are some of the adjectives from the central government and from the traditional parties like the PP and the PSOE, were devoted to the massive support offered to the former president of the Generalitat.
But it is not the only one sitting on the bench of the accused, former vice-president, Joana Ortega, and the former councillor for Education, Irene Rigau, are also being prosecuted for “disobedience and transgression”. Ortega is judged to be the right arm of the former president and Rigau because it allowed colleges to open their doors for the catalans would vote despite the Spanish Constitutional Court (TC) had prevented the realization of the process proposed by the Catalan government.
however, if the consultation was conducted was because of all the prohibitions, political and judicial, the government of the Generalitat gave the consultation to the people. The 9N was made possible due to the work of 42 thousand civilian volunteers who took up the baton and continued with the work of making the appointment, which would be at an informational event, as the quibbling legal had made her lose its binding character.
"The policy initiative was mine and that of my Government. The guidelines came from me." (Artur Mas dixit, February 6, 2017)
In this quote from justice, But which warlord who seeks to go down in history as the president who listened to a significant part of his people and fought by his side for the independence, assumed full responsibility for the query. He knows, among other things, that the more you defend the process, the better you will be in the eyes of those who may soon have to choose a new president in Catalan.
If all goes as planned for the roadmap to independence, before the end of this year, despite who gets upset and disobeying the Spanish, there would be the real referendum and the mandate of the current president of the Generalitat would end up with a new electoral process in which Mas has stated that it could participate as well was sentenced by the Spanish courts.
If Mas is found guilty of the process made the 9N, has already signalled that it would resort to the judgment before the european courts. The sentence faced by the former president is 10 years of disqualification from any public office. For your "partner necessary" justice calls for 9 years. In addition, they could not be elected, even, to occupy the chair, secretariat or delegationship of any humble board of neighbors.
"What of the morning is not a referendum , nor a consultation, nor produces any effect" (Mariano Rajoy dixit, November 8, 2014)
however, the result of the 9N if produced "effect", we took the pulse of the pro-independence and this showed measured and robust, well, something more than 2 million catalans-despite the fear that tried to disseminate the Spanish government – they came free and excited to vote; and 80% of them vote YES to the referendum. It was then when someone in The Moncloa, or perhaps the very same Rajoy fell into account that the independence is not the dream of four sleepless; he had then to fight it with all the artillery.
And the machine political court started to ride a more refined and powerful than ever, it was announced the trial of Artur Mas and it was made clear that all who stand in opposition to the plans constitutional would be prosecuted. It doesn’t take in to fall the president of the Catalan Parliament which will also be prosecuted for “disobedience and transgression”, in your case, for allowing a vote that according to the central government aimed to "open a constituent process, making an accurate plan for the secession of Catalonia”.
But the machinery is not only deployed in the political sphere and the judiciary, and also transfer to the plane of the intrigue as in June of 2016 discovered a conversation between the then minister of the Spanish interior, Jorge Fernández Díaz, and the director of the anti-Fraud Office in Catalonia, Daniel de Alfonso. In conversations recorded by the own of Alfonso, in the purest style of Vladimiro Montesinos, listening to Fernandez to ask Alfonso, anything that could incriminate him in a case of corruption to any member of the Catalan government.
Another YES say
Consulted Pablo Iglesias, leader of Podemos, on the trial But said: "we do not seem to us well-that is to judge no one for putting the polls. Speaks badly of the Spanish democracy that this occurs, at the time that there has been levels of impunity, scandalous corruption,". And in that corruption, she would dance up the own Rajoy. "Be strong Luis" wrote to him, Rajoy and Luis Barcenas, the former treasurer of his party, when the latter was arrested for possible irregularities in the financing of the PP. "I’ve been strong for Mariano," he answered Barcenas Rajoy, on his way out of the prison.
Spain is a country where Justice is NOT judge a president, when the former treasurer of his party (PP) -responsible of the accounting ‘opaque’ of the same – he confessed that he also had delivered to Mariano Rajoy, one of the famous envelopes with ‘bonuses’ that would have gained high positions in the party. However, it is allowed to prosecute a former president of an Autonomous Community, by allowing their citizens to go to vote.
The trial has just begun, and if the government of Mariano Rajoy remains determined to discuss the politics, the race towards the independence of Catalonia will not stop, so claim to civil-society organisations from catalonia and the politicians that support the process. Just weeks ago the current president of the Catalan government, Carles Puigdemont, I reaffirm the willingness of conduct the referendum for independence before the end of 2017. And the people related to the cause so requires.
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