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The Government Generalitat threat to use Article 155 to lock the sovereignist process in Catalonia
The Minister of Justice says the article of the Constitution “is fully in force and may use” would mean the suspension of Catalan autonomy.
It also warns that “there is no room for it independence posed “as the joint list more and Junqueras.
Agencies
Public (Spain)
Wednesday July 22, 2015
The Justice Minister Rafael Catala, threatened on Wednesday that the government could use to Catalunya Article 155 of the Constitution, which allows you to force a community to fulfill its obligations, because “it is fully in force and is possible use. “
In an interview on Cadena Ser, Catala has acknowledged that so far has not been used because it was not given the scenario of” flagrant breach “of its obligations by a community autonomous, but that could be done, always following the procedure provided for in the article itself.
Article 155 of the Constitution states that if an autonomous community does not fulfill “its obligations under the Constitution or other laws imposed upon it” or acting “in a way that is seriously prejudicial to the general interest of Spain,” the government, “prior notification to the president of the autonomous region and, if not addressed, with the approval by an absolute majority of the Senate, may adopt measures it necessary to force the specific performance “of its obligations or to protect the” general interest “.
To implement these measures, he added, the government” may instruct all authorities of the autonomous communities ” .
Catala has stressed that “no room” for what they are proposing independence, which provide, if they win the elections 27S, begin a process of independence. “There is such a scenario, it is impractical and impossible,” he warned the minister. It has also rejected the claim that the Government is responding to the sovereignty process initiated by Artur Mas only with the law and the courts, and has replied that the members of the executive are often Catalunya proposals of coexistence and integration.
So, he has questioned a government of another party will defend the unity of Spain and the Constitution with the same intensity as today. “Others do not know if they have the same strength of feeling,” he said heading straight to the PSOE, which has accused him speak of “asymmetrical federalism” or during the processing of the ‘Statute’ afirmase to approve what would come of Catalunya “without much control.” “We must be firm in defending the unity of Spain and the equality of all Spaniards,” he warned.
As for the possibility that the Government challenging the decree calling the elections, has made clear we’ll have to wait and see and check if you have “a problem of legality” but not be drawn on if simply calls a regular elections. The Government has made clear, it has not requested any particular report to the Attorney General or the State Attorney’s resources because the Constitutional Court (TC) are some “everyday” by both the central government against rules of the autonomous communities and in the opposite direction.
He stressed that the Government has resorted to TC twice provisions of central government to the contrary, so “is not that the State prosecute the autonomous region, is that it is a debate natural “.
In the third part 9N Catalans
It has also warned that it would be” very undemocratic “impose the will of some citizens de Catalunya over others, given that the “only time” that has been shown the level of support for independence was in the “sham” of 9N and two thirds of the Catalans did not participate. It does not consider the 9N were a reliable test because it was “of little democratic quality”.
Catala has insisted that the independence of Catalonia does not fit the current constitutional model and pointed out that the Constitution can be amended if there is consensus to do so. However, it has made clear that he is against making constitutional reform “slogan” and also to “open channel constitutional model.” In that regard, he marred the leader of Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, who speaks of “a new constitutional pact” without specifying what he’s talking and stressed that issues such as the right to housing or work are already included in the Constitution .
Margallo: “Skipping the rules leads to dictatorship”
The Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo, has told Today the Catalan President, Artur Mas, who “jump the rules leads to arbitrariness or the dictatorship” and called him “return to rationality”. Garcia-Margallo has made these remarks in a symposium organized by the Casa America Houses Network Forum in collaboration with the Agencia Efe when asked about the possibility of a unilateral declaration of secession of Catalonia after the elections announced for September 27.
It also warned of the “risks” that run this region with a unilateral declaration, since it would not be recognized neither by the United Nations or the European Union. The minister insisted that independence for Catalonia entail a loss of wealth of between 30% and 40% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and added that it could not finance the “huge” debt you have.
He explained the importance of respecting the law and that in the case of Spain collects the Constitution provides in Articles 1.2 and 2 that sovereignty belongs to all Spaniards and that is based on the indissoluble unity of the Spanish nation.
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