(updated 16.01.2015 15:05)
In a long interview with Catalan radio RAC1, the regional leader explained that “if a pure referendum 50% of the votes would be needed”, but “no we are doing a pure referendum “so that” at least there must be absolute majority “in Parliament.
More advanced the regional elections this week after boosting November 9 an independence consultation was declared illegal by the Spanish Supreme Court. In the participatory process called voted about 2.3 million Catalans, of which an overwhelming majority voted for independence of Catalonia. More than 5.4 million people were called to the polls, according to the census of 2012.
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The Catalan president said that assume any election result. “If not gain independence forces, I have to assume, would mean that people do not want independence” promised Mas. Emerging victorious, the September 28 More Madrid offer an agreed solution, “negotiate the establishment of a state in Catalonia”, in order that no one lost in this process.
The 28-S ” nothing will happen definitive “but” we will have to scramble to convey to Europe and the world that have achieved this result and this is our will. “
Unlike its independence rival, Oriol Junqueras, on Thursday predicted the complete independence of Catalonia 2016, Mas would not put a definite date. The regional leader confirmed that no dialogue with the Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy since July last year when they met recently at the Moncloa Palace. “It We agreed that he would call me him in August or September and has not done, communication with Rajoy has since been via complaints” revealed Mas.
The Catalan president replied to the statement Rajoy Thursday ensuring that the electoral process in Catalonia “is his failure, the failure of the Spanish Government, that would not have come to this if Spain was a mature country and would have allowed the query as in Scotland,” he argued.
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