With the president of the Spanish executive, Pedro Sánchez, in Brussels, the government’s response comes from the ministers who attended the plenary session of Congress.
Euskaraz irakurri: Espainiako Gobernuaren alde sozialistak ERCri: “Ez da erreferendumik izango”
The Spanish government has once again strongly denied that a referendum will be held in Catalonia, which is being defended this Wednesday by the Catalan President, Pere Aragonès, and which the Popular Party now takes for granted after considering that the reform of the Penal Code the “accelerated route” for it.
With the President of the Spanish Executive, Pedro Sánchez, in Brussels, the government’s response comes from those ministers who attended the plenary session of Congress, where all those who spoke, such as María Jesus Montero, Miquel Iceta or Pilar AlegríaThey have done so without exception in the same line and unequivocally: “There will be no referendum.”
“With a government led by Pedro Sánchez, such a referendum will never be held, either regularly or irregularly,” said PSOE Finance Minister and Deputy Secretary General María Jesús Montero when asked about the agreed referendum claiming ERC based on the Montenegrin model: minimum 50% participation and 55% yes to independence.
With the debate open, the leader of the PSC, Salvador IllaFor his part, he has warned the independence movement that “there will be no self-determination”. Illa proposes a consultation, but refers to self-government, which would mean reform of the statute.
For the consultation referred to by llla, they also asked Secretary Montero, who has rejected that it would be a referendum, while the ERC spokesman in Congress, Gabriel Ruffianhas taken “good news” that the leader of the PSC is proposing talks in Catalonia so that he can “finally” face that of the Republicans.
While the Spanish government flatly denied the referendum, the Catalan president Pere Aragones He has assured that he “does not acquiesce” in this refusal and has defended that Catalonia has “the right to freely decide its future” in an independence referendum which, he said, “can never be a crime”.
A referendum that the leader of the People’s Party, Alberto Nunez Feijoohas taken it for granted, though the executive denies it, and has asked that this “separatist drift” be “put to the polls” with an advance on the general election.
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