The Catalan President, Artur Mas, said Monday that the final leg of this year 2014 will mark “a turning point in the history of Catalonia” with “will and determination” of the Government and Majority Parlament to call a sovereigntist consultation on November 9.
“The general policy debate this year comes at a particularly crucial and decisive moment for our country, its present and, particularly, its future. Nobody can overlook the final stretch of this 2014 will mark a before and after in the history of Catalonia. I hope and I am confident that for good ” Catalan president said.
This was said in the opening minutes Mas his speech at the General debate of Catalonia Policy , marked by the mass demonstration of National Day last in Barcelona, with a view to the eventual holding a sovereigntist consultation on 9 November. He added that if that day can not vote, can not exhaust the legislature and will call early elections.
“Later this year we will reach the mid-term and if you can I would like to finish it when he plays at the end of 2016 I say if you can “, has qualified before remembering the other groups that not only depends on it. To make it so, two requirements must be met:. They can vote on 9 November and that vote is made “with full democratic guarantees”
Depletion constitutional pact
Catalan President reiterated that after 35 years of constitutional pact, has been reached “a dead end that leads nowhere,” , and added that the judgment of the Statute of 2010 “removed many” of this agreement. In his opinion, the “spirit of the Transition and the constitutional pact have evaporated” and accused the Executive of conducting a “systematic and continuous disassembly and destruction of self-government.”
Spain has a serious constitutional crisis and protests in Catalonia are the most evident demonstration In this line, has reported that try convert to autonomy “in pure providers administrative service units without political profile and increasingly less able decision. And without this, there is no possibility of building its own national project. ” For More, the state is running a “operation on a large scale recentralization This time without disguise.”
But “Catalonia has always collaborated with Spain and has helped him in every challenge. – mentioned, among others, the adoption of the Constitution, the fight against terrorism and the stability of governments, is tired of treating the state, not Spain, as some say, but the Spanish State “, but has admitted that the Catalans are also critical of” shortcomings and weaknesses “of Catalonia
So, believes that” Spain has a serious constitutional crisis and protests in Catalonia are the demonstration evident. ” However, the State has not taken any steps. “It is unlikely that the State has not taken any political initiative, well, just one, say no,” , has nuanced Mas, who has criticized the Government’s attempt to be scary and dedicated to “use laws as retaining wall and not as a solution. “
Urges opposed to independence to defend its position in the query also added that” for there to be a train wreck should go the same route and in opposite directions but Catalonia and Spain are on different paths in opposite directions, no shock, no distancing. ” In any case, he recalled that the intention ‘ consultation 9N “does not respond to the madness of a few but the will of many expressed which has more value in the polls.”
It reiterated that consultation is advisory but have political consequences, which has asked the central government to allow make guarantees and legitimacy. In this regard, he stressed that it is not known which option will win, so has encouraged all parties to defend yours .
Corruption and economy
The query has not focused the whole speech of the president of the Generalitat, who has analyzed the economic situation in Catalonia and, among other things, the fight against corruption , though without mentioning the ‘case Pujol’, and moves towards transparency and democratic regeneration, without citing the case Pujol. On this issue, he recalled that a little over a year he drove 51 measures to promote transparency . “Since then, we have obtained new cases of possible corruption in our country,” he added.
admits that the “door inward disappointments” felt by the Catalans in an evening in the ‘case Pujol’ In another part of speech, reference has alluded to the corruption veiled , has argued that when the Catalans take to the streets to claim their objectives such as the Diada- despite their “problems, hardships or disappointments” a disappointment that sometimes are “doors inward,” he explained Mas, who added that despite them, many people believe that Catalonia has enough “energy, drive and talent to become a, comfortable, high quality equitable and democratic “country prosperous.
As for the economic question, Mas has insured that are over budget cuts that were applied by the crisis: “We have reached the end of the road”. “There is no room for further cutting spending, if you do not want to jeopardize the quality” of the welfare state, said after the “titanic effort and politically very hard and ungrateful” has meant reduce spending the Government by 20% in four years , equivalent to more than 4,000 million euros. The “most painful” decision taken was the removal of one of the two extra payments to public employees, the Government expects to recover next year with the 500 million euros that claim the government unable to implement tax bank deposits.
Again, has dismissed as “arbitrary and unfair” the deficit target imposed to autonomy the central government, and regretted to continue without paying outstanding debts owed to the Government for years and has not reviewed the regional financing model, which should have been done this year. Despite these “inhospitable even harsh conditions,” said Catalonia has begun to emerge from the crisis.
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