Mas said he was willing to face Spain and who will not let him be president

USPA NEWS - "I'm so calm, wanting to fight, wanting to pull forward and stand up to the powers of Madrid, who have always tried to make this country can´t move forward," the acting president of the regional Government of Catalonia, Artur Mas, said Monday.

But not only the branches of Government. Artur Mas said he also wants to "stand up to some here who put excessively difficult things," referring to the anti-capitalist coalition CUP that definitely on Sunday refused to support the nomination of Artur Mas as president for another term. He gave more secure call new elections, the fourth in the last five years, which draw an uncertain scenario. First, they lost the plebiscite character that supporters of Catalan independence gave the elections to be held on 27 September. But also because the show offered during the last three months by the independent parties may affect the vote.

The top leaders of Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC), the party to which he belongs Artur Mas and one of the members of the Nationalist-Republican coalitions Together for Yes (JxS its Catalan acronym), met Monday morning to discuss the immediate future. At the same time, it was confirmed that, at least for now, there will be a new plenary investiture in the regional Parliament of Catalonia, which itself held a plenary session on Thursday, in order to elect the senators that represent the Catalan institutions in the national Parliament.

And it is that CDC and its partner application, the Republican Left of Catalonia, insist that Artur Mas is their only candidate to lead the independence process. In this way, the Nationalist-Republican coalition closes the door to the possibility that someone else is president of the regional Government of Catalonia with the support of the CUP. If things do not change before next Saturday, Sunday will be automatically convened regional elections that could be held on March 6.

For the opposition parties, the early elections as an opportunity to "give the lace a sovereigntist project that, in recent years, has divided the Catalan society," the candidate of the conservative People's Party of Catalonia, Xavier García Albiol said Monday. In his view, "the only ones responsible for this situation are they, independence," who now "can´t say that the failure of the sovereignty process is Spain." For the leader of the parliamentary opposition in Catalonia, Ines Arrimadas, by the centrist party Citizens, elections "are the least bad option, considering that the other possibility is to choose Mr. Mas".