Declared “unconstitutional” the Catalan sovereignty consultation – Terra Peru

The Constitutional Court (TC) of Spain upheld the government, which considered that the vote violated exclusive powers of the State.

The government of Mariano Rajoy was right, according to the Constitutional Court of Spain: the sovereigntist consultation on 9 November in Catalonia is unconstitutional. This was determined on Thursday (06/11/2015) Members of the high court unanimously, noting that the alternative view, called “participatory process” by the Catalan authorities, violated exclusive powers of the state.

The symbolic consultation, in which more than two million people participated and where 80 percent approved the idea of ​​an independent Catalonia, the Catalan government of nationalist Artur Mas was promoted as an alternative outlet the official inquiry that had previously summoned and had been suspended by the Constitutional Court, to be challenged by the government in Madrid.

The alternative, however, was also appealed by the government of Mariano Rajoy, considering that this was a veiled referendum and that preparations were against the Constitution. In addition, the Constitutional Court considers that “the process of citizen participation” November 2014 “affect the established order and the foundation of the constitutional order”.

In gold letters

The court maintains that, unlike the appeal against the decree issued by the government to convene the first official consultation, in the second case there was a ” convening formal act “but a series of actions” materials “related to the vote, of which the Executive responsible Mas. It refers to the information provided in those days on the consultation, the registration to carry out the instructions given to the participants volunteers and the transfer of public premises to locate the polls.

But not quick to respond, and in a press conference in the Gothic Gallery of the Palace of the Generalitat, said the consultation of November 9 “can not cancel or delete,” noting that will go down in history “in gold letters” as “a democratic mandate.” He also assured that “we have tried everything else can not do. We have blocked all roads “, and therefore considers that” the only way is to call elections (September 27). ”

DZC (DPA, EFE, El Mundo)