Socialist leader accused the separatists of betraying the will of the majority

USPA NEWS - The secretary general of the Socialist Party, Pedro Sanchez, considered that "the resolution just adopted by the secessionist majority of the Parliament of Catalonia is the biggest challenge to the constitutional order of Spain and the most serious manifestation contempt and violation of democracy."

According Pedro Sanchez, "the promoters, and those who have supported them in the session that just ended, betray the will of the majority of Catalans, last September 27, they refused to vote for secession of Catalonia from Spain, and they expressed their desire to maintain and renew the institutional and political projection of a shared secular history." The secretary general of the Socialist Party denounced that "a minority and aims to steal most of the citizens of Spanish nationality, which enables them to exercise the rights and freedoms that the Constitution and laws attribute to them.

Secessionism" he said, "aims to provoke three fractures: first, between Catalan; the second, between Catalan and Spanish brothers, and the third between Catalonia and the whole of Europe." With this decision, said the Socialist leader, who on Tuesday will meet with the Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, in the Moncloa Palace, "secessionism has placed outside the law to the Parliament of Catalonia, and leaves him standing to the performance of its functions to violate, consciously and deliberately, the Spanish Constitution and the Catalan Statute of Autonomy, exclusive sources of its existence and activity."

Respect for the law and the law is not divisible

"Violating the law and established procedures for making decisions is to give up democracy to replace the tyranny of arbitrary wills they choose, each time, the standard of performance that suits their interests alone. This is not the path followed by advanced and civilized societies to achieve their targets, the pattern is not supported by the international community," said Pedro Sanchez in a public statement.

"Who in this day have decided to situate themselves and the institutions they represent out of the law, have taken a serious responsibility that must account and deal with their consequences," said the Socialist leader, adding that "with the secessionist challenge, the State has the right and obligation to take the necessary decisions and to restore compliance with the Constitution, its principles, values and standards by all public authorities and institutions of all measures." Pedro Sanchez expressed the support of the Socialists to resource to present the Spanish Government and appealed to the Spanish unit to deal with the independence movement.