Early elections in Catalonia show ‘failure’ of … – The Nation Costa Rica

Early elections in Catalonia show 'failure' of … – The Nation Costa Rica

” This makes no sense. It is plainly a finding of failure and correspond to the citizens of Catalonia gives his opinion on this matter seems to me an extremely serious, “said the president

Madrid

The Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, criticized the call for early elections in Catalonia considering it “the finding and the evidence of the failure of a policy that has only generated instability and uncertainty” in that region of northeastern Spain.

In an interview with EFE, Rajoy said that the intention of the President of Catalonia, Artur Mas, to call early elections Wednesday in the region for 27 next September assumed that this year “will subject the Catalan citizens to a campaign electoral eight months. “

In this context Rajoy referred to the fact that in May municipal elections held in September autonomic and year-end general.
And with eight months early elections will be the third time in five years that regional elections are held in Catalonia.

The intense debate sovereigntist lives in Catalonia recent years and the lack of solid majorities has caused the two legislatures have passed Artur Mas just two years each, without realizing the fiscal pact or even a full-blown referendum on independence, as claimed by him.

But the conservative nationalist formation CiU (Convengencia and Union) agreed to anticipate the elections with the leader of the separatist formation of left and Republican ERC, Oriol Junqueras, its main partner in the sovereigntist inquiry symbolic held on 9 November.

It is for this reason that Rajoy considered that the announcement “has decided to try to meet the criteria of Convergence and Union and ERC” while that matters of general interest, such as unemployment, economic problems of citizens “have forgotten”

“Here was said. must try to resolve a mess and a problem We ERC and CiU, and the decision was made out of pure partisan interest, “lamented the Prime Minister.

In this line, insisted that it is not normal to have in five years three regional elections and a president announce early elections five months before the election date.

“This makes no sense. It is plainly a finding of failure and correspond to the citizens of Catalonia gives his opinion on this matter seems to me an extraordinary gravity, “Rajoy said.