Expectation in Spain before the convening of elections in Catalonia – El Universal (Venezuela)

Barcelona, ​​España.- The president of Catalonia, Artur Mas, Monday officially convene early elections in the northeastern region of Spain with the intention to convert, on September 27, in a referendum on independence.

The signing of the decree in Barcelona initially expected by noon. However, it was postponed until the evening, according to confirmed sources of the Catalan Executive, amid media and social expectation for the next step of depth in the process towards the separation of Spain the Catalan leader began almost three years ago in defiance the government of Mariano Rajoy, DPA reported.

Not only time is unknown, but whether there will be a public event for it. Spanish media have speculated that the secrecy is a precautionary measure in the hypothetical Rajoy temptation to anticipate the same date the Spanish general election calendar should take place later this year. Today is the last day of the legal term for the convening of an election on September 27

The intention of Mas is to give a plebiscitary character to the Catalan elections: Yes. the candidacy of unity with other independence has sponsored training and the main secessionist associations get majority support in the polls, legal and institutional will to unilaterally proclaim independence in eight months steps. He did not disclose, however, what most considered sufficient and necessary to do so.

Rajoy has again recently repeated that in no case shall independence region, which has 7.5 million inhabitants and, despite its economic strength, is also one of the most indebted.

The Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria, urged Monday the Catalan leader to abide by the law in this call for early elections and respect the “fairness” in his capacity as head of the regional government. Dissolve the Catalan regional parliament and call elections “is all he can do and all that is legitimate,” he said in Madrid.

The figure of a plebiscitary election does not exist in the Spanish legal system, so more will sign a decree lacks any mention of that term, to avoid a possible challenge by the Rajoy government. Will be “strictly legal,” confirmed a spokesman for his party.

The pulse of the Catalan leader with the whole state is larger than it has Spain lived in a democracy. The bridges between the regional and central government are broken and institutional dialogue between them is virtually nonexistent.

The September 27 elections will be the Catalan third in five years and the second that Mas expected from 2012, when he began to walk down the secessionist path, in defiance of Rajoy and their government after it refused to grant the region a preferred funding.

At this time, Mas failed in the attempt to hold a legal referendum on the secession of the region; his party, Convergence, lost seats in the regional parliament and recently also accompanying Union, with which it teamed for 37 years, because of opposition from the latter training to their secessionist plans.