Catalonia’s Leader, Facing Deadline, Won’t Say if Region Declared Independence
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Catalonia’s Leader, Facing Deadline, Won’t Say if Region Declared Independence
Mr. Rajoy wrote that the decisions of Mr. Puigdemont’s government had "generated a significant fracture within Catalan society, as well as enormous economic uncertainty," according to a copy of the letter
that was distributed to the news media by his government office.
He also called on Mr. Rajoy to end "the repression against the Catalan people
and government," referring to a court summons issued for the chief of the autonomous Catalan police force and the two leaders of the main pro-independence citizens’ movements.
Facing a 10 a.m. deadline on Monday, Mr. Puigdemont asked for a meeting with Mr. Rajoy, according to a copy of his letter, and suggested
that the conflict could be resolved, with the help of international mediators, within two months.
After a perplexing speech last Tuesday before Catalonia’s Parliament, Carles Puigdemont, the region’s leader, sent a letter to Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy asking to negotiate a solution
but declining to clarify whether independence had been declared.
16, 2017
MADRID — The Spanish government has given a new ultimatum to Catalonia’s separatist leader to clarify whether he was withdrawing his plan
to declare independence from Spain, after a Monday morning deadline for the separatists to make their intentions clear came and went.
In his letter, Mr. Puigdemont wrote that "the priority for my government is to search intensely for dialogue."
But he did not address the crucial question: whether he had declared independence in his address to Parliament last week.
Mr. Rajoy wrote that the decisions of Mr. Puigdemont’s government had "generated a significant fracture within Catalan society, as well as enormous economic uncertainty," according to a copy of the letter
that was distributed to the news media by his government office.
He also called on Mr. Rajoy to end "the repression against the Catalan people
and government," referring to a court summons issued for the chief of the autonomous Catalan police force and the two leaders of the main pro-independence citizens’ movements.
Facing a 10 a.m. deadline on Monday, Mr. Puigdemont asked for a meeting with Mr. Rajoy, according to a copy of his letter, and suggested
that the conflict could be resolved, with the help of international mediators, within two months.
After a perplexing speech last Tuesday before Catalonia’s Parliament, Carles Puigdemont, the region’s leader, sent a letter to Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy asking to negotiate a solution
but declining to clarify whether independence had been declared.
16, 2017
MADRID — The Spanish government has given a new ultimatum to Catalonia’s separatist leader to clarify whether he was withdrawing his plan
to declare independence from Spain, after a Monday morning deadline for the separatists to make their intentions clear came and went.
In his letter, Mr. Puigdemont wrote that "the priority for my government is to search intensely for dialogue."
But he did not address the crucial question: whether he had declared independence in his address to Parliament last week.