Artur Mas says it will keep the 9-N query though … TC – 20minutos.es

Artur Mas says it will keep the 9-N query though … TC – 20minutos.es

The President of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Artur Mas (c) greets citizens on the Plaça de Sant Jaume de Barcelona, ​​in front of the Palau de la Generalitat. (AP)

The President of the Generalitat, Artur Mas, said Saturday that his intention is keep preparations of the query Nov. 9 although the Constitutional Court (TC) provisionally suspend , and accepts that they must analyze the failure of the high court to see the actual effects.

TV3 interview after signing this Saturday morning the decree of 9-N, Mas has argued that the Government may ask the “opinion” of Catalan and has argued that the state, if he wished, could make his proposal on 9-N with a “second box” but “there can be no hope that proposal” and focus “drown everything,” he criticized.

The State, if he wished, could make his proposal on 9-N with a second ballot, but there can be no hope that given But “if you sink all quotes a ‘manu militari’, it is not for lack of legal cleanliness, “he said Mas, who has said that it has developed the decree and the law of consultation so” flawless “from a legal point of view . “It would have made it so easy for them to say-at-state ‘Votad’ and very difficult to say ‘do not votéis” stressed

Catalan president has confidence that the TC act as an impartial arbiter but has admitted that does not know “what it will be suspended TC” if it occurs and, based on this, you should analyze what is done, he said.

But in any case, “have the legitimacy to throw forward” and “common sense” that the Government may consult the Catalans about his political future, he remarked. In a new marine metaphor, has Mas stressed: “The sailing ships carrying motor and if they run out engine, display candles and stay the course”

the face of a likely suspension of TC, Mas has. remarked that “suspended does not mean canceled” and has stressed that its position is that “if it is suspended and does not automatically void, which I imagine is what will happen at any time can raise the suspension, so if suspended, the Government must be prepared so you can vote on 9N. “

Mas has said that this process is not sovereignty” against Spain, “but against possible reprisals It is said that is willing to take “all risks” you can have as president.

But in regard to citizenship, people “must not be afraid “but ” security that we do what we do right and what we should do, “he argued.

But said it still expects a proposal to the State Catalonia, something that has not occurred, and stressed that it is better to vote through a query because in the end, he said, “is eventually voted” other ways , without specifying whether it will be through of a plebiscitary elections.