Catalonia Keeps Set on Referendum Suspended by Spanish Justice

The President of Catalonian regional government, Carles Puigdemont, asserted it maintains the holding of the Independence referendum in 2017 despite the suspension ruling by the Spanish Constitutional Court.

Puigdemont declared to the press that the ruling by that judicial organ does not represent a surprise, but it does give evidence of 'a constituitional populism in Spain'.

At the same time, he assured he will maintain the summit of December 23 to prepare for that popular consultation.

In his resolution, the Constitutional Court alerted the president of the Catalonian parliament, Carme Forcadell, and the authonomic president of the responsibilities, including penal ones in which they would incur if they ignore this mandate.

In 2014, that Court decreed in another sentence referred to Catalonia that under the present Constitution 'a region cannot unilaterally summon a referendum of selfdetermination, as the Charter is based in the indissoluble unity of the Spanish nation'.

The cabinet of president of the Spanish government, Mariano Rajoy, who inaugurated last month his second mandate, is in favor of dialogue with Catalonia to hear its edemands of greater self-government, but rejects the holding of a popular consultation, something that the majority of Catalonians claim for.
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