CATALONIA -- 28.08.2014: Juristische Rückendeckung (Tageszeitung junge Welt)
Legal backing
Catalonia: Constitutionalists approve referendum on independence
From Mela Theurer, Barcelona
Hundreds of Catalans have demonstrated Sunday at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin for the holding of a referendum in their home.
For the 9th November, a referendum is provided in the previously
belonging to Spain Autonomous Region, in which the people should decide
on the formation of an independent state.
So far, the implementation is blocked by the central government in
Madrid, which evaluates a vote on the independence of Catalonia as a
fraction of the Spanish Constitution.
At another score came in the last week of the "Consell de Garanties
Estatuàries" (CGE, Council for statuesque guarantees), a body of the
Generalitat, which monitors compliance with the provisions of the
Catalan Statute of Autonomy and other laws.
The judges represented there declared in its decision of 19 August,
that the law which is to decide in mid-September, the Parliament in
Barcelona, is lawful. The decision of the nine-member Council was, however, scarce.
While five of the lawyers, the 14 articles of the draft law on the
referendum as the legal norms of the Spanish state rated accordingly, in
several opinions expressed concerns from the other four. Consistent aimed their criticism that the goal of the referendum shall be the independence of Catalonia.
Nevertheless, the Catalan government is confirmed by the majority decision of the CGE.
The deputy Josep Rull of civil CiU with the perspective of a possible
ban of the referendum by the Spanish Constitutional Court, that such a
judgment would then be a political decision without legal basis.
The Popular Party PP, the Catalan wing of the Spanish governing party
of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, criticized that the CGE is not as
requested on the legality of the specified double question "Should
Catalonia become a state?" And "Shall this state be independent?
'Expressed .
The prospanischen »Ciutadans" (citizens) accused the government of
having exploited the CGE for their political goals in order to perform
an "illegal referendum" can.
Nevertheless, the law in the Catalan Parliament is expected to be rubber-stamped by a large majority.
The alliance is made for the CiU, the "Republican Left" (ERC), the Left
Alliance ICV EUiA and the radical left "candidate for the National
Unity" (CUP). Last November they had reached agreement on the question for the referendum and the November 9, 2014 set as the deadline.
The Catalan President Artur Mas (CiU), attempts since then with the
government in Madrid to reach an agreement on its implementation. The response of the PP remains a vehement No. Barcelona is now just relies on a formal legal way, in the context of the intended law is to hold a referendum.
The referendum on November 9 will be the culmination of a year-long campaign. In September 2009, there had been an unofficial referendum in the small community of Arenys de Munt.
This first referendum was followed by 605 more, at which a total of
more than 800,000 people involved, which voted overwhelmingly for
independence from Spain.
As a result, founded in March 2012, the "Assemblea Nacional Catalana"
(ANC, Catalan National Assembly) as a non-partisan grassroots movement
that now counts 51,000 members.
She organized large spectacular actions such as a 400 km long human
chain to the Catalan National Day on September 11 last year, in which
1.5 million people involved. For the coming 11 September, the ANC mobilized to a new mass rally in Barcelona.
Hundreds of thousands of people are then a giant "V" form, which
symbolizes the words' Voluntat "(Will)," Votar "(select) and" Via
"(road) is available.
