Independence of Catalonia provide declare secession in 2017 … – Terra Colombia

Two parties and the main associations of Catalan sovereigntist movement signed a roadmap in which undertake to declare independence in 2017, if the secessionist formations win the elections of September.

The text, signed on Monday night Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC, left), Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC, right) and associations Omnium and ANC (Catalan National Assembly), with an association of mayors independence (AMI) underlines the “plebiscitary character of the elections of September 27″.

According to the signatories, these elections will serve as a legal mechanism to know what the will “of the majority of citizens” Catalan.

Therefore, “the programs of the sovereignist Applications must make clear and prominent first point, which is a favorable vote on them the independence of Catalonia pronouncement,” said the roadmap.

The document stipulates that in case of victory, the signatories develop a constitution and establish the necessary for the functioning of the future state institutions.

The “process of national transition to the proclamation of a new state or Catalan Republic, which will begin after the elections on September 27, will culminate in a maximum period of 18 months”, ie in the spring of 2017.

The final stages of the process will be “a binding referendum on the text of the constitution” after the general election and, finally, negotiations to define “the new relationships with Spanish State and the European Union “.

“I think this new roadmap is bad for the whole of Catalan, is also bad for the rest of the Spanish”, said Tuesday the head of the Spanish conservative government, Mariano Rajoy, warning “No government of Spain will authorize the breaking of the sovereignty of Spain”.

“It breaks all ties that bind us a while (…) forces many Catalans to stop being Spanish and European” added

The deal follows months negotiation between the Catalan President Artur Mas, from Convergence and Union (alliance between CDC and Democratic Union of Catalonia, center right) and ERC, the historic Independence Party of Catalonia, who wanted a faster process.

But, who stars from late 2012 a pulse with Madrid, decided to call early elections, after the Constitutional Court forbade her to hold a referendum.

One of the inhabitants of Catalonia, which represents around 20% of Spanish GDP and has 7.5 million residents from 46.5 million Spaniards are increasingly tempted by the independence, after years of tension with the executive Rajoy, fueled by fiscal policy and aggravated by the crisis.

The latest polls on this issue conducted by the Center for Sociological Studies of the Catalan regional executive in February and March showed that 39.1% of Catalans are in favor of independence, 24% agree with current state, and 26.1% would like to follow in Spain, but with greater federalism. About 7% did not know or did not answer.