{"id":11597,"date":"2017-10-20T14:31:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T14:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/spains-rajoy-promises-to-end-crazy-catalan-stand-off\/"},"modified":"2017-10-20T14:31:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T14:31:42","slug":"spains-rajoy-promises-to-end-crazy-catalan-stand-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/spains-rajoy-promises-to-end-crazy-catalan-stand-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain\u2019s Rajoy promises to end \u2018crazy\u2019 Catalan stand-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said his Cabinet would take <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/catalonia-independence-spain-to-suspend-autonomy\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">decisive measures <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/catalonia-independence-spain-to-suspend-autonomy\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday<\/a> to return Catalonia to normality after a chaotic stand-off that he blamed squarely on the pro-independence regional government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a crazy situation so the aim is double: to return to the rule of law and restore institutional normality,\u201d he said Friday at the end of an EU summit in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>The conservative prime minister has called a meeting of his ministers to decide on the next steps to take in response to Barcelona\u2019s refusal to clarify whether it has unilaterally declared independence from Spain or not, ignoring this week\u2019s deadline set by Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>Rajoy declined to comment on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/spanish-government-to-force-election-in-catalonia-say-socialists\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Socialist politician\u2019s<\/a> remarks on TV earlier on Friday that the ruling Popular Party and opposition Socialists (PSOE) had agreed to call early elections in the region for January. That would effectively cut short the four-year term of regional President Carles Puigdemont, who took office in January 2016 after elections in 2015 that were won by a pro-independence coalition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll measures that we adopt \u2026 we will announce tomorrow,\u201d said Rajoy. He added however that the PP was in full agreement with the PSOE and centrist Ciudadanos on the need to invoke, for the first time, article 155 of the Constitution that enables the central government to intervene in a rebellious region.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if invoking article 155 could involve the use of force, and whether he feared an outbreak of violence in the region, the prime minister responded: \u201cI hope the [Catalan] authorities behave in a more responsible way than on previous occasions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rajoy said he was grateful for the expressions of support from fellow leaders at the summit and said the Catalan secessionist push was a bizarre situation \u201cin 21st century Europe\u201d that challenged the bloc\u2019s principles of democracy and the rule of law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine if [the German state of] North-Rhine Westphalia decided unilaterally to declare independence, or Alsace, or Lorraine, or any region of Europe: Do you think this would be acceptable?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/spains-mariano-rajoy-promises-to-end-crazy-catalan-stand-off\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Original Article<\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"contfix\">\n<div id=\"contdto\">         <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRMd3Tz2gX9xSa6CJyaOj2dokBVcrdaT4yY3R3RI7YmL18vCLZZ\"\/> <\/p>\n<h4 id=\"contfixlink\">Politico<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said his Cabinet would ..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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