01.10.2014 - 09:30
The Catalan government said yesterday that it would continue the process aimed at holding a consultation vote on independence from Spain, despite the Spanish Constitutional Court’s suspension of the decree authorizing the vote. ‘The process continues. That is the government’s intention. We are in a context in which nothing came to a definitive end the day before yesterday. There is a legal situation that we will not disregard, but the government is determined to press forward. We will take action in fulfilment of our commitments and in accordance with the law’, said Francesc Homs, press secretary for the Catalan government.
Homs also announced that, as a precautionary measure, the government was temporarily suspending the official campaign promoting the 9 November vote so as not to put rank-and-file functionaries ‘on the ropes’, as they stand to bear the brunt of any legal consequences that could develop as a result of continuing with preparations for the consultation despite the Constitutional Court’s suspension. ‘Anyone who wishes to do so may promote it [the vote], but we cannot put government officials on the ropes’, Homs said.
The following is the advert urging voters participation in the consultation that has been banned:
Pro-consultation parties press onward with 9-N preparations in parliament
Today may see the first instance of institutional disobedience after Spain’s Constitutional Court suspended the parliamentary act legalising the consultation and the decree authorizing the vote: The board of the Catalan parliament has placed on parliament’s agenda for today the holding of a full session to debate the proposal put forth by pro-consultation parties naming seven individuals to integrate a 9-N supervisory board.
