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Puigdemont calls a meeting of the Catalan Parliament in response to Rajoy
The president of the region said in his speech Saturday night that he will call on the legislative body to "debate and decide" a response to the measures against the pro-independence process that drives and with the aim of "defending the institutions".
Puigdemont spoke hours after the Spanish government proposed, for ratification by the Senate on the 27th, its cessation and that of its entire Cabinet and to call autonomic elections before six months to restore constitutional order in that region, where the authorities have promoted an independence process considered illegal by the Justice.
The pro-independence activist said that he will call on Parliament to respond to the attempt to "liquidate" Catalan autonomy and against what it considers a claim of the Executive of Mariano Rajoy to govern from Madrid the affairs of Catalonia. "We can not accept this attack," said the secessionist leader, for whom the Spanish government wants to "humiliate" Catalonia. That is why he called a "conspiracy" to defend Catalan institutions and appealed to the "force of the people" to assert their aspirations.
Puigdemont made an appearance at the Palau de la Generalitat at 21 hours to assess the decisions taken by the Council of Ministers, which has agreed to ask the Senate to cease and the whole of his Government under Article 155. The chief executive Catalan has added that the central government has illegally proclaimed itself the representative of the will of all Catalans, and now "wants to appoint a directory to teledirija from Madrid the autonomy of Catalonia." "What the Catalans decided at the polls the Spanish Government annuls in the offices," he has sentenced.
Reactions to the Madrid measures
Catalan independentistas maintained the discretion this Sunday on their next steps to face the plan of the central Government to remove to the regional Executive and to take other measures, whose constitutionality is object of debate.
Sunday's message comes a day after Madrid decided to take the constitutional measure to cease the government of Catalonia, the last resort to thwart the independence campaign and calm fears of political and economic turmoil in the heart of the euro zone.
The decision, to be implemented this week, took tens of thousands of protesters to the streets of Barcelona on Saturday and was rejected by Catalan President Carles Puigdemont, who called it a "humiliation."
