Catalonia will approve before October 1 its disconnection from Spain

USPA NEWS - The Catalan independence coalitions Junts pel Si and CUP, members of the regional government of Catalonia, presented Monday in Barcelona the Law of Legal Transitory and Foundational of the Catalan Republic, which they intend to approve in the regional Parliament before October 1, the date chosen for the referendum on independence.

The law presented on Monday is the main rule of the so-called “disengagement laws“ of Spain, planned for the case that in the referendum on October 1 won the “yes“ to independence. With them, the Catalan authorities want to create an alternative legal framework to Spanish. The law presented in Barcelona would enter into force on October 2, until the holding of constituent elections. It will also be the basis on which the Catalan Constitution would be drafted.

As soon as the presentation of the Catalan law is known, the Spanish Government warned that the norm “will never enter into force“. A government spokesman said that “that rule can be announced as many times as they want, but it will never come into effect“. He also accused the regional government of Catalonia of “surrendering“ to the demands of “a minority party, radical and anti-system“ as the CUP.

In this sense, Spanish President Mariano Rajoy (conservative) and Socialist Party Secretary General Pedro Sanchez held a conversation on Monday in which they agreed to adopt joint decisions in the face of the Catalan independence challenge. From the Socialist Party insisted that on October 1 “there will be no referendum“ or on October 2 a Catalan Republic.