Catalonia President Mas loan to a unilateral declaration of independence
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President of the Generalitat Artur Mas threat to unilaterally declare
independence of Catalonia, while Madrid continues to put pressure.
"I do not exclude the unilateral declaration of independence,"
said the president of the Generalitat Artur Mas citizen during a
conference organized by the daily El Periodico, the last weekend.
Catalan Autonomous President considering this possibility in the
extreme case where the willingness of 80% of the parliament to hold a
referendum on the issue would be defeated by the central government, led
by Mariano Rajoy. Spanish Defense Minister Pedro Morenés, responded immediately on a radio station. He found that the Catalan president commit an "absolutely unacceptable illegal action", but talk about sanctions ..
At 8 months of the date fixed by the Parliament of Catalonia for the
implementation of the self-determination referendum, the position of the
central government remains unchanged: no question of negotiating
anything about it.
Only the Foreign Minister José Manuel García-Margallo, crossed swords
from time to time with the Catalan leaders, alternating with vague
attempts at dialogue "within the framework of constitutional legality." And he warns the Catalan government that independence would lead ipso facto exclusion of Catalonia of the European Union. It would be a he said pictorially, condemned "to wander in space ... for centuries and centuries."
A report prepared by the department and sent to all Spanish embassies around the world, explains that "the
secession of Catalonia result in a 20% drop of the Catalan GDP,
reflecting the decline in exports and investment loss of abroad. "Last Sunday in Brussels, the same Minister has established" an absolute parallelism between Catalonia and the Crimea ", echoing the statements of the Russian ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Churkin.
Last week, it justified the referendum among the population of the
peninsula citing Scotland and Catalonia, among other territories.
But President Mas beautiful game, these days, to respond to those who
affirm that the Catalan separatist tendencies will flee investors. "For the moment, it is rather the opposite," he says.
And cited, among the most significant investments next installation
Barcelona central sales via internet chain of ready-to-wear Swedish H
& M, whose main objective, the French market or the the Amazon
logistics platform near the airport (3 000 jobs announced for next
year).
Not to mention the creation of a Ferrari theme park Port Aventura
(Tarragona), dedicated to the automobile, whose opening is scheduled for
2016.
