Catalan independence: Catalonia vows to IGNORE Madrid court order
Raul Romeva said Catalonia would ignore the suspension from the Spanish Constitutional Court and still meet to discuss independence. It was widely expected Catalonia would declare independence on Monday after the referendum last week. Speaking on the Today programme, Mr Romeva said: “What is funny is the Constitutional Court is banning the parliament to debate having nothing noted on the order of the day. “They are simply making a preventive prohibition of the parliament.”
GETTY•FRANCE24 Catalan Foreign Affairs Minister said Catalonia would still continue independence talks
When asked by John Humphrys what the parliament would do after the order, the foreign affairs minister vowed to ignore the ruling. He added: “Parliament will discuss, parliament will meet. Parliament will debate and this is important. “Every attempt the Spanish Government has used, to [stop] things from happening, they have been demonstrated completely not only useless but counterproductive. “We are demanding politics, we are demanding negotiations.”
Parliament will discuss, parliament will meet. Parliament will debate Raul Romeva
Spain’s Constitutional Court suspended the regional Catalan parliament, throwing its plans to declare independence on Monday from Spain into chaos. Catalonia’s President Carles Puigdemont had said that he would declare independence from the rest of Spain “in a matter of days” before the suspension. It was widely expected that Mr Puigdemont would make the announcement on Monday during the planned session of the Catalan parliament.
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