Mas promote a meeting of the Safety Board of Catalonia … – euronews

Reuters, 15/04 13:28 CET

The president of the Generalitat, Artur Mas (2d), listens to a question from the Chair of PPC, Alicia Sanche-Camacho, during the control session Catalan executive who is celebrated today the Parliament of Catalonia. EFE

Barcelona, ​​April 15 ( EFE ) .- The Catalan President, Artur Mas, has pledged today to the jihadist threat to promote Safety Board Catalonia, which brings together the main executives and Catalan and security forces, but only if you agree with the Government that has “content” that it is not a “picture” to “look good”.

So replied Mas in Parliament the leader of PSC , Miquel Iceta, who has asked to speak to the Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, to make this Board is convened Security at the jihadist threat. “It can not be that citizens are victims of bad relationship between two governments on an issue like this,” warned the Socialist leader

Under the Statute of 2006, the Security Board of Catalonia is chaired by the president of the Generalitat, which is who is entrusted with the power to summon, and composed of five government representatives and five of the Catalan executive, along with other officials or security experts who can attend as advisors with voice but no vote.

The last meeting of the Board was held on March 3, 2009 in Barcelona, ​​chaired by the Catalan president José Montilla, when the Minister of Interior was the Socialist Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba and the Minister of the bouquet was Joan Saura ( ICV ).

Thanking the work of the Mossos in antiyihadista struggle, the leader of PSC regretted that Government and Government are unable to convene the Safety Board of Catalonia when he managed to gather Monday in Barcelona more than 30 ministers from EU countries and the Maghreb to address issues security.

“I ask you to take the initiative and call for the convening Rajoy Safety Board” of “immediate” because “it can not be that citizens are victims of bad governance ratio of two on an issue like this, “he said Iceta in your question in the control session of Parliament Artur Mas.

The president of the Generalitat has picked up the gauntlet and is committed to” try again ” although he predicted that the Government gives “lazy” because it would address the claim of the Government of the Autonomous can “relate to normalcy” with other European police forces, since it is “the most well prepared” to act in Catalonia terrorism and other threats.

Mas has asserted that the Government would like the Board meet “regularly”, but has warned that an agreement between Government and Government “on the content of the agenda is first necessary “and this is what he and the Minister of the Interior, Ramon Espadaler, have already raised” on many occasions “the central government without reaching an agreement.

” We need a Security Board with content and According to serve for anything beyond making a photograph that looks good for 24 hours but that is useless in the coming weeks, “he remarked Mas, who pointed out that if these conditions are not met, not convene.

In the last Safety Board, the Government and the Government agreed that the Mossos d’Esquadra were integrated into the database on cases of gender violence they work with the National Police, Civil Guard and local police.

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