Rajoy insists on closing the door of independence for Catalonia

USPA NEWS - The future of Catalonia consult all Spanish or not consulted. It is the idea that he wanted to convey the President of the Spanish Government in the general policy debate on the same day that the Constitutional Court annulled the sovereigntist consultation convened by the Catalan authorities.

The consultation, scheduled for last November, was suspended after withdrawal of the Government in the Constitutional Court, which has now given reason the Executive. While made public the judgment of the High Court, in the Congress of Deputies was held the second day of the general policy debate, dedicated to the interventions of the Basque Nationalist Party and minority parties in Congress, integrated into the Joint Group. In the halls of the House, MPs harshly criticized the blame game the previous day between Rajoy and opposition leader, Pedro Sánchez.

On this second day of debates, the Catalan nationalist spokesman warned that next September 27th, in Catalonia "will vote of yes and the no", referring to the regional elections that day, that the independence want to become plebiscite. Rajoy was "in favor of all the Spaniards decide what they want their country", closing the door again to a unilateral independence of Catalans. Against criticism by neglect, according to the Catalan and Basque nationalists, and Galician and Canarian parties, the Government has submitted to the territories, Rajoy recalled "difficult decisions" that had to be taken during the crisis, which affected the whole Spaniards.

However, Rajoy insisted, "We can now look to the future with more optimism than in 2012. Spain starts going well. Hope that years ago seemed impossible opens". The Spanish president complained about the inheritance of the Socialists, but reiterated that "unemployment bleeding has stopped and now it grow". Expressed confidence in the future: "I think I can do well and I think it will go well", he said. Against that was manifested the Basque nationalist spokesman, Aitor Esteban, who said it was "the Government of the R of the cuts, which does the opposite of what was promised".

To which Rajoy said that the situation is much better now, thanks to the measures taken by the Government. "Growth forecasts are better because of them", said the president, who insisted that Spain will grow this year at least 2.4% and three million jobs will be created so that it can reach 2019 with 20 million active workers. Of those three million jobs will be created half a million this year.