The Foreign Minister José Manuel García-Margallo, sparked controversy yesterday by not discarding the suspension of Catalan autonomy if the Government goes ahead with its intention to hold a consultation on self-determination on 9 November.
The government will use “whole law” to prevent the appointment sovereignty, Margallo said. And with the possibility that, if necessary, that included the suspension of autonomy, applying Article 155 of the Constitution, he said. “Including what you have to include”
The Executive, continued the head of Spanish diplomacy, “can only use the law, but all the law to prevent a query that is contrary to the law and that would produce terrible effects for Catalonia to Spain and the European Union.” The cascade of reactions to those words was immediate, and Artur Mas interpreted them as a threat. However, the president of PPC, Alicia Sánchez-Camacho, reproached him say it deems threatening to do the law.
ERC spokesman in Congress, Alfred Bosch, Margallo crossed off of ” incendiary “and accused him of acting with” intransigence and fanaticism. ” However, the deputy speaker of the lower house CiU, Pere Macias, considered the statement by the minister as one of their “ideas”.
Deputy Joan Coscubiela (ICV) described as “threatening” theses Margallo and appealed to maintain “a lot of dialogue, prudence and little bravado.”
The president of Citizens (C’s), Albert Rivera, claimed the foreign minister “no overkill” but leader UPyD, Rosa Díez, reminded him to apply the Constitution to “defend” the rule of law and democracy, “is not a gun” and “secession of Catalonia, not a fly.”
For the PNV, and while the Basque government spokesman Josu Erkoreka, warned the government that errs if he thinks that will stop at Catalonia invoking the law, the Nationalist Congress spokesman, Aitor Esteban, wondered if Minister provides for “sending tanks.”
The leader of the PSOE, Pedro Sanchez, said that the minister made a mistake while his spokesman in Congress, Antonio Hernando, asked him to “take no fuel to the fire, “and the secretary of Socialist Federal Policy, Antonio Pradas, arguments Margallo was” misplaced. “
The uproar caused by his statements carried Margallo to consider after” amazing ” that is news “in a mature country” to say that the government will use every tool that allows you to law.
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