Madrid, Jan 15 (EFE) .- The call for early elections in Catalonia in an attempt to keep alive the sovereignty debate that region was crossed today by the Spanish Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, of “evidence of failure” such policies and a distraction to the real problems.
President of Catalonia, Artur Mas, announced Wednesday early elections within eight months, namely September 27, a decision that has caused all kinds of comments both in the political arena and citizenship, by plebiscite dyes that are intended to give after failing to hold a sovereignty referendum.
It will be the third regional elections in Catalonia in five years, which according to Rajoy “makes no sense”.
“It is plainly a finding of failure and correspond to the citizens of Catalonia give their opinion on this matter seems to me a extremely serious, “Rajoy said in an interview with Efe.
The lack of solid majorities caused the two legislatures have passed Artur Mas just two years each, without getting materialize their promises, the covenant prosecutor or holding a referendum on independence fledged.
Nor Mas has achieved its purpose of forming an independence platform with various forces to go together to the elections, to be held eight months before the they were planned.
But the head of the conservative nationalist formation CiU (Convergence and Union), and the leader of the separatist formation of left and Republican ERC, Oriol Junqueras, agreed this week to anticipate the elections.
ERC was the main partner of Mas in the symbolic sovereignty consultation on 9 November last, with which he challenged the Spanish Government and the Constitutional Court had suspended.
But ERC has fared eating ground CiU, polls, so the Catalan president tried to form an independence united platform to go to elections.
The Spanish Government considers that the announcement “has decided to try to meet the criteria of Convergence and Union and ERC “, while matters of general interest, such as unemployment, economic problems of citizens” have forgotten “.
With these elections Autonomic, Artur Mas “is to undergo Catalan citizens to a campaign of eight months,” Rajoy autonomic and year-end general said, referring to the fact that in May municipal elections were held in September.
Josep Rull, general coordinator of Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC) -the party Mas, who along with Democratic Union of Catalonia (UDC) is integrated into CiU, made it clear today that the elections on 27 September shall “plebiscitary character.”
Meanwhile, the leader of the Socialist Party of Catalonia, Miquel Iceta warned that the EU will not accept the outcome of elections as an independence referendum.
“In Europe no one will accept as independence verdict on the outcome of parliamentary elections,” said Iceta, who accused Mas “trick” the Catalans to submit a regular election as a referendum.
The president of the People’s Party of Catalonia (center-right), Alicia Sanchez Camacho, appealed to “awaken the silent Catalonia” does not want independence in the elections of September 27, the invitation has qualified for error because are only “artificial” to “buy time”.
gesture also the Catalan employers Foment del Treball warned that the advancement of the regional elections generates “a dynamic of political instability” and said it expects agreements between Artur Mas and the leader of ERC “fit the current legal and constitutional framework.”
Just at the judicial level, Artur Mas and two other members of his government today filed an appeal against the decision the Superior Court of Catalonia (TSJC) of you investigarles for alleged disobedience to the organization of “alternative consultation” of November 9.
In this regard, last week, the Superior Court of Justice Catalonia (TSJC) indicated that seen indications that the Catalan president could incur a crime of disobedience to disobey the order suspending the alternative sovereigntist consultation last November 9 .EFE
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