08.10.2014 - 14:15
‘The Catalan National Assembly, the pro-independence group that led hundreds of thousands of protesters in Barcelona last month, will endorse using regional elections as a de facto referendum on independence if the Spanish courts block a vote planned for Nov. 9, chairman Carme Forcadell said.’ Bloomberg has published an interview to Carme Forcadell, the leader of the ANC, or Catalan National Assembly. It is the main civil society organization and an important political actor of the past years. ANC advocates for the independence of Catalonia through peaceful and democratic means. As the title of Bloomberg’s article says, Carme Forcadell can be named the ‘Catalan Protest Chief’. ‘If the consultation isn’t possible because the Spanish government blocks it, we will go to elections,’ Forcadell says in this interview.
‘The group would like to see pro-independence parties stand on a joint, single-issue ticket so the result would send the clearest possible signal about the will of the Catalan people’ explains the article about the ANC.
Bloomberg published last week a harsh editorial against the Spanish government, with the title ‘First Scotland, Now Spain‘. The text criticized PM Rajoy’s fixed position in rejecting independence consultation vote in Catalonia and askec for a constitutional reform.
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