Puigdemont:
"The worst attack since Franco"
Marta Lasalas, El Nacional
Barcelona. Saturday, 21 October 2017
Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont, has announced that he will ask the Catalan Parliament to call a meeting this week to analyse the consequences of the Spanish government's decision to activiate article 155 of the Spanish Constitution and remove the Catalan government from office. He asks the Parliament to take the relevant decisions.
The president was speaking this evening from the Catalan government palace in an official speech organised after learning that Mariano Rajoy's central government would ask the Spanish Senate to remove him from office as president along with the members of his cabinet and let the Spanish cabinet take over their roles.
"The Catalan institutions cannot accept this attack. It's incompatible with all democratic attitude and the rule of law", he said, as well as criticising the police repression during the 1st October referendum and the detention without bail of the presidents of the ANC (Catalan National Assembly) and Òmnium Cultural.
"We have to plan to again defend our institutions, peacefully," said the president.
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