Rajoy: “The referendum in Catalonia is not going to happen” – Terra Perú

three months have been invested president of the Spanish Government, Mariano Rajoy, said that “the referendum in Catalonia is not going to perform.” As stated in an interview published this Sunday (15.01.2017) in the journal The Reason. Your time added that he felt “reasonably satisfied”, and believes that his country has “begun to travel a road unknown until now in Spanish politics, the way of the great arrangements of the State.”

he Also said that it interprets the parliamentary situation “as a mandate for dialogue and understanding”, both for the Government as for the rest of groups “who share with us a vocation and institutional responsibility.”

In the interview, Rajoy argues, the “success” of the labour market reform; is convinced that if they do well they can return to lower taxes in this legislature..

in the opinion of Rajoy, “the first steps of this legislature – are encouraging, we have reached agreements on important issues and this is reflected in confidence indices in the country and in the image that Spain is winning abroad.”

therefore, hoped that “this spirit of cooperation will also be showing at the next Conference of Autonomic Presidents”, but regrets that neither the lehendakari, Iñigo Urkullu, president of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, want to participate.

To the head of the Executive, this legislature, “the priority is to maintain the economic recovery and continue to create employment at the rate of half a million jobs each year… That’s my only red line”.

Citizens

With respect to the president of Citizens Albert Rivera, Rajoy said to have been understood to such an extent “that we have signed an agreement of 150 measures for this legislature”.

“Citizens is our preferred partner and we hope that what is in the whole legislature,” he says.

the question of whether it fears that the new us Administration that will lead to Donald Trump since January 20, responds that the relations between Spain and the US “are a strategic and well above of the changes of government in our respective countries,” and holds that “our goal should be to maintain the best possible relations in the interest of our country.”

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