Spanish Government appeal the Catalan resolution as unconstitutional

USPA NEWS - The Spanish Government presented Wednesday to the Constitutional Court an appeal against the resolution adopted Monday by the regional Parliament of Catalonia, declaring the beginning of Catalan independence process.

The appeal of the Spanish Government points out five articles of the Spanish Constitution in force and two of Statute of Autonomy that violates the resolution for the Catalan Parliament. Therefore, seeking the annulment of parliamentary agreement, banning the Catalan Chamber to approve similar initiatives to the respondent and to communicate to 21 senior Government and regional Parliament of Catalonia the suspension of the resolution and be informed of they will commit crimes if they disobey the Constitutional Court.

According to the Spanish Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, the Spanish Government resource tries to defend "all entire country." In his opinion, "the promoters of this secessionist resolution granting itself a constitutional power that is not theirs, intended attributed national sovereignty, which corresponds only to the Spanish people." Rajoy said he would defend "firmly" respect for popular sovereignty and unity of the nation, as they are the "essence of democracy."

The resolution independence, Rajoy said, "seeks to end democracy and the rule of law, subjecting the freedoms and rights of all citizens, and break the unity of the Spanish nation and coexistence." The president of the Spanish Government recalled that the rule of law "ensures the separation of powers, subject to its laws and its control by the judges as well as the protection and safeguarding the rights of citizens. These are the principles that violates a resolution that focuses on the arbitrariness of power," he said Rajoy.

Meanwhile, the Catalan Police said Wednesday that it will defend the Constitution and the Statute of Autonomy, and asked that their role is not instrumentalized. Catalan Police spokesmen said that if the judges order, they will arrest the president of the regional Government of Catalonia, Artur Mas, and the president of the Parliament, Carmen Forcadell, because "no police are above the law" and its rules Article 1 states that the department must comply with the Spanish Constitution and the Statute of Autonomy. A report by the Spanish Ministry of Interior said that, of the 17,000 agents of the Catalan Police, only 300 declare independence.