Sunday, December 28, 2014

Catalan and Basque presidents criticize recentralization in Spain – Chicago Tribune

Catalan and Basque presidents criticize recentralization in Spain – Chicago Tribune

December 28, 2014, 10:56 am  regional presidents of Catalonia, Artur Mas, and the Basque Country, Iñigo Urkullo Madrid , December 28 (PL) The regional presidents of Catalonia, Artur Mas; and the Basque Country, Iñigo Urkullo, today denounced the existence of a strategy of recentralization of the Spanish authorities, in their discretion, break the political consensus reached.

 A statement from the Basque government since the end of a meeting of Mas and Urkullo says that the government of Spain is unilaterally breaking the basic consensus of three decades.

The document indicates that in the workshop of an hour and a half both leaders discussed the economic and political situation and what they define as institutional crisis model of Spanish state.

The document issued by the Basque authorities said the two leaders agreed to jointly face the tendency to recentralization by processes up in each community to adapt the political status.

In Catalonia More promotes the separation of Spain by referendum or plebiscite elections, while Basque Country, Urkullo leads a favorable current new status of self-government with greater powers to the region.

The two leaders, the precise statement also expressed concern about what they call discredit the Spanish policy by distrust of society towards political parties motivated, among other factors, by the crisis .

They also include in its on impairment assessment matches the corruption and malpractices associated with the policy in a situation of hopelessness motivated by the management of the economic crisis.

The meeting between the two presidents marked regional nationalist trend took place in Vitoria, the Basque capital, prior to a football match between the national teams of the two Spanish autonomous communities

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