Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Rajoy: “I’ve dismissed the Catalan government, that’s not been done since WWII”


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Mariano Rajoy, the Spanish prime minister, has raised the tone against the independence movement and the Catalan government in an interview this Tuesday with Spanish radio station COPE, in which he appeared proud about the application of article 155 of the Spanish Constitution as an example of his strong decisive action towards the Catalan crisis.

He ... denounced the role of Diplocat (Public Diplomacy Council of Catalonia) and justified decreeing its closure. “In international terms, they have created an infinity of offices, the only thing they did was to speak bad of Spain”. As for his government’s initial plan to intervene in Catalan public media, however, he said “it makes no sense for three months and freedom of speech is a basic right”. ...

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