Catalans Consider Proclaiming Independence as Soon as Next Week
Source: Bloomberg
The leaders of Catalonia’s separatist movement are considering proclaiming independence as early as next week as they debate their response to the latest offensive from the government in Madrid.
“We should take a decision in the next days,” Jordi Xucla, a Catalan deputy for the PDeCAT party in the Spanish Parliament in Madrid, said in a Bloomberg Television interview. “The decision could be obviously the declaration of independence maybe in one week or in two weeks.”
Senior lawmakers from the main pro-independence parties will meet in the Catalan Parliament on Monday to discuss the potential choreography of the event, according to a person familiar with their plans. The political leaders are concerned that they may lose control of more radical factions among the grass-roots campaigners unless they deliver quickly on the result of an illegal referendum held on Oct. 1, the person said, asking not to be named, because the were private.
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy unleashed his most powerful legal weapons on Thursday, triggering the process to take direct control of the Catalan administration using Article 155 of the Spanish Constitution. Regional President Carles Puigdemont had earlier warned the premier that such a move might force the rebel region into a unilateral declaration of independence.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-19/catalans-consider-proclaiming-independence-as-soon-as-next-week
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