CATALONIA -- Catalan government keeps the consultation under new rules
‘We’re moving forward, not as united as before, but forward’ said #presidentMas
The independence consultation vote will be carried out in Catalonia on
November 9 but in different parameters than the ones fixed on December
2013.
‘We’re moving forward, not as united, but forward’ said Artur Mas
The independence consultation vote will be carried out in Catalonia
on November 9 but in different parameters than the ones fixed on
December 2013. Catalan president Artur Mas explain it in a press
conference this morning: ‘Vote will not happen according to Law of
Consultations and the decree I signed, obviously because the Spanish
Government has suspended both’. Mas said an alternative vote with a
different legal framework will be carried out on the same date: ‘We’re
moving forward, not as united, but forward. Commitment means Catalan
Government will hold the vote on that date, with ballot boxes and
ballots. I would have preferred maximum consensus but it is now not
possible’.
Mas said neither the original proposal nor what we have now proposed
can be considered definitive. He stated the only definitive solution is
through elections with unitary list, which the international community
would recognize: ‘This option is still at our disposal and it is the
most feared option by the Spanish government’.
‘Although consensus is broken, I know for sure the real adversary is
the Spanish state, which does everything it can to keep Catalan people
from voting’ he stressed out. ‘We now need people’s support more than
ever, we are a bit more alone’.
No consensus on holding the 9th of November vote as designed and nor on having early elections as an alternative
Parties supporting the self-determination vote scheduled for the 9th
of November met on Monday in Barcelona to discuss whether to carry on
the consultation vote as it is currently planned or to launch instead an
alternative way in order to allow Catalans to have their say on their
collective future, in view of the total opposition from the Spanish
authorities to the current self-determination process. The meeting ended
without concensus.
