The President of the Generalitat has signed the notice of the referendum of 9-N EFE / Alberto Estevez
SILVIA RUIZ MONTOYA
The Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria, regretted “deeply” and considers it a “mistake” that the president of the Generalitat, Artur Mas, this morning signed the decree that calls the query 9N sovereigntist since “fracture Catalan society and distances them from Europe and the feel of the times.”
In an appearance at the Moncloa Palace, Saenz de Santamaria has also been reported that the Government has asked the Council of State report for submission of resources against the law of consultation and against the decree signed by Mas. So, has said that these resources “the law protects the rights of citizens and the exercise of democracy.”
Once the State Council issued the report, the Cabinet will meet to the Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, can raise these appeals to the Constitutional Court. “The government has a duty to protect the law and the rights of the Spanish,” he added.
The query “unconstitutional”
The vice president recalled that the December 12, 2013, the day on which the notice announced Mas, Rajoy said and that referendum is not going to hold . “It’s not going to celebrate because it is unconstitutional,” he qualified.
“Since then, the Prime Minister, the Government and the House of Representatives have reminded him that there is nothing above of the sovereign will of the Spanish people, “he insisted.
There is nothing above the sovereign will of the Spanish people
also said that the government is responsible for ensuring that the law is enforced, “it is as much as ensure the survival of our democracy.”
On the other hand, the number two of the Government indicated that the Spanish and Catalan “have made Spain what it is: open a united country country and a country that has managed to get all difficulties. ” “All Spaniards have consolidated a democracy, we have given a bill of rights and have built a welfare state,” he added.
“Many centuries of living together”
So, has clarified that we both joined a “personal emotional, social and commercial ties.” “Many centuries of living together, many relationships, many experiences together …”, he said.
In addition, he noted that the Government will continue to work for ” strengthen those ties, to unite and not divide , to continue building together for our country in the framework of the law, “he concluded.
Asked whether he will continue having dialogue Catalonia, Saenz de Santamaria said “dialogue always have” and recalled that when “the Catalans have had a problem, the Government has been there.”
The Socialist Party says that “goes against” the Constitution
Meanwhile, according to Efe collected, the PSOE spokesman in Congress, Antonio Hernando, has claimed that the Catalan consultation ” will power not to make “because” it is against “the Constitution and ensured that the Socialists support the” challenge “of the decree of convocation of the referendum in Catalonia.
Hernando has assured journalists that the notice of Almería sovereignty referendum in Catalonia is “the most serious and irresponsible decision has taken a government in Spain.”
“Socialist thought signing this decree is the latest episode of a very serious drift “has sustained Hernando. Thus, stressed that “More must know that his attitude is producing a enormous frustration in society and a huge fracture.”
In this line recalled that “all the Everyone knows “that the PSOE is” supporter “of the reform of the Constitution, but has clarified that” before “make this reform, should” obey the Constitution. “
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