SPAIN AGAINST THE CATALONIA NATION .. Spanish government asks constitutional court to declare Catalonia's independence consultation illegal - VilaWeb
Spanish government asks constitutional court to declare Catalonia's independence consultation illegal
The consultations law and the call for the 9-N vote will be provisionally suspended once the court admits the appeal
Mariano Rajoy's cabinet has agreed to appeal to the Constitutional
Court to challenge the consultations law and the call for the 9-N vote.
Both legal texts will be automatically and provisionally suspended
without any need for justification when the appeal is admitted to
proceedings at the court. In order to admit appeals made by the Spanish
government, the twelve court magistrates must meet in a plenary session.
The court will meet extraordinarily this afternoon.
The Spanish
government cabinet met urgently this morning to challenge, on the basis
of unconstitutionality, the law on consultations passed Friday 20
September by the Parliament of Catalonia and President Artur Mas’s
decree signed last Saturday. This decision was long announced by several
Spanish ministers.
In fact after the passing of the law on consultations in the
Parliament of Catalonia, the government admitted a fast plan of action
that would start up as soon as Artur Mas, the president of the
Government of Catalonia, called the consultation.
The urgency of the decision is intended to prevent the Catalan
institutions from having time to start up the machinery of the
consultation and the pertinent campaign.
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