Philip VI meets with president of Catalonia in the discussion … – Televisa News

MADRID, Spain, July. 17, 2015-The King Philip VI received the President of the region of Catalonia, Artur Mas, in the debate over the plans of the Catalan nationalists to promote a process of independence from Spain.

The presence Mas in the Palacio de la Zarzuela is part of the contacts in recent weeks the head of state has with the rulers of the Spanish regions, but has generated great expectations for the current Spanish political moment.

ago A few days Catalan nationalist groups agreed to set up a joint regional parliament elections expected to take place in late September list.

The intention is that this unitary candidacy defend the Catalan sovereignty over to Spain and in the If an eventual victory in the elections, a regional government that could proclaim independence of Catalonia from the sixth month following the date the September polls would form.

In La Zarzuela Artur Mas had no comment or the Royal House gave the version of the treaty for an hour and twenty minutes.

However, the spokesman of the Catalan government, Francesc Homs, advanced plans for “disengagement” from the “legality Spanish “which would supply a Catalan law on” transitory “in the independence process.

According to Homs, nationalists can not” accept the legality are the other -España- “because it comes through the “democratic legitimacy” of the polls “and respect the will of the people”.

For his part, the Deputy Prime Minister, Soraya Saenz de Santamaria, said today that any action taken contrary to the Constitution the executive Catalan examine and argue.

“There is no more sovereign than the Spanish people,” Saenz de Santamaria, who recalled that the steps taken by the nationalists to try a consultation said sovereigntist were appealed by the central government before the Constitutional Court, which ruled in favor.

However, the Spanish government of Mariano Rajoy, against the secession of the region and holding an independence referendum, He warned it will challenge any measure taken by the Catalan government that may be contrary to the Constitution.

“There will be a Catalan independence,” he said adamantly Thursday the chief executive.

RAMG