Admin l Saturday, October 28, 2017
CATALAN – President of Catalan, Carles Puigdemont Casamajó has described the decision of Spain to halt the entire government of Catalan and the dissolution of parliament as an affront on the popular will of the people as expressed through the September 27 polls.
The Spanish Council of Ministers invoked Article 155 of the constitution, leading to cessation of independent governance of Catalan and dissolution of parlaiment following the declaration of independence by the Catalan parliament.
“Yesterday we lived a historic day, a day filled with democratic and civic feelings. The Parliament of Catalonia complied with what the citizens voted on September 27 when, through the polls, the majority entrusted Parliament with the proclamation of independence.
“Yesterday, also, the Spanish Council of Ministers agreed to the cessation of the entire Government of Catalonia, the intervention of our self-government and the dissolution of Parliament.
“These are decisions contrary to the will expressed at the polls by the citizens of our country who know perfectly well that in a democratic society it is the parliament that elects or removes presidents”, he said. He explained that Independent Catalan must be defended with an untiring civic sense and peaceful commitment.
“However, in these first few hours, all of you have understood that the stage in which we have entered must be defended with an untiring civic sense and peaceful commitment. Your reaction is one of a mature country that knows where it wants to go and how it wants to go there.
“We will not steer away from this path: we will continue to have the only attitude that can make us victors. Without violence, without insults, in an inclusive way, respecting people and symbols, opinions and also respecting the criticisms of the Catalans who do not agree with what the parliamentary majority has decided”, he said.
According to him, the will of Catalans is to continue working to fulfil the democratic mandates and at the same time to seek the maximum stability and tranquillity, understanding the logical difficulties involved in a stage of this nature.
“The message I would like to address to you is that we need to have patience, perseverance and perspective. We are sure that the best way to defend the achievements reached to date is through the democratic opposition to the application of Article 155, which is the consummation of a premeditated aggression against the will of the Catalans who for many years, and in a majoritarian way, have felt to be nation of Europe.
“We must do so by protecting ourselves from repression and threats, and without ever abandoning our civic and peaceful conduct. We don’t have or want the reason of force. Not us. I’m convinced that this demand is what everybody expects, outside of the country as well.
“We will continue to work to build a free country, to ensure we have a society with less injustice, more equality, more solidarity and more fraternity with all the peoples of the world, starting with the peoples of Spain with whom we want to remain connected through respect and mutual recognition”, he said.
