By Monica Uriel MADRID, 15 (ANSA) – The president of the Catalan regional government, Artur Mas, agreed with the independence leader Oriol Junqueras declare independence from Spain Catalonia six months after the September elections.
Junqueras Mas and agreed to Tuesday, the Spanish press reports today, presented together regional elections on 27 September.
If this candidate wins, the pact provides for the unilateral declaration of independence of Catalonia between six and eight months later.
Mas considers these regional elections, which will advance one year in respect to when they should celebrarse- “plebiscite” on independence Catalonia.
are for him the independence referendum that President Mariano Rajoy, not allowed to celebrate the 9th of November, when it was held in Catalonia a query outside the law on the independence promoted by Mas.
In the current parliamentary spectrum Catalan independence it is openly defended by CIU, Mas party, which has 30.7% of the votes, the party of Junqueras (ERC, 13%) and CUP (3,4 %). The Popular Party (PP), which has 12.9% of the vote, and Citizens (7.5%) are opposed.
After months of negotiations, more and Junqueras decided that the electoral list is headed by three activists defending citizens’ independence, National Assembly of Catalonia (ANC) and Omnium Cultural.
These two associations are the ones called in the past three years millions of people to demonstrate in the center of Barcelona in favor of independence.
The list will be headed by Raul Romeva, partner associations, to be followed by Carme Forcadell, former president of the ANC, and Muriel Casals, president of Omnium.
However, if victory list, Mas, which would in fourth place (Junqueras ranked fifth), would be president. Rajoy described as “confusion maneuver” But the joint list and Junqueras. President rejects that elections are “plebiscite” on the independence of Catalonia and holds that “are regional elections to choose a regional parliament and nothing else”.
Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo, compared to Mas , which is “full speed to nowhere” with Greek President Alexis Tsipras.
“When someone loses credibility and nobody wants to deal with you,” he said.
Margallo insisted that “Catalonia is not would be a state and would not be recognized in the European Union. I could not cope with the debt you have, the largest in Spain. ” UR-ADG / MAR
07.15.2015 22:16
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