SPAIN AGAINST THE CATALONIA NATION ----- Spanish Government Seeks Criminal Charges Against Catalan Leader - NBC News

Spanish Government Seeks Criminal Charges Against Catalan Leader - NBC News

 

Spanish Government Seeks Criminal Charges Against Catalan Leader

by Reuters

 

MADRID — Spain's central government is seeing if
it can bring criminal charges against the speaker of the Catalonian
parliament for letting the assembly vote for independence, it said on
Friday.

People
hold placards to form a giant Estelada, or Catalan separatist flag, in
front of the Sant Feliu del Llobregat townhall, near Barcelona. ALBERT GEA / Reuters file

The Catalan parliament voted on Wednesday to
continue with its plan to detach the wealthy north-eastern region from
Spain, despite a ruling by the Spanish Constitutional Court annulling an
earlier resolution to form an independent state.

Related: Catalonia Votes in Symbolic Poll for Independence From Spain

Soraya Saenz de Santamaria, deputy prime
minister in the caretaker administration in Madrid, said the government
had asked the Constitutional Court to annul the latest resolution and
see if Catalan assembly speaker Carme Forcadell had broken the law by
trying to press ahead with the independence plans.