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In full celebration of the 1-O in Catalonia, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has revealed today that his Executive "has studied" and if he can apply Article 155 of the Constitution , which allows to suspend Catalan autonomy, even being in functions He has argued that it can be done "without problem." Although the Courts are dissolved, the Permanent Deputation of the Senate - the House that must authorize 155 - could approve it, according to government reports.

With these statements in an interview this morning at Ser Sánchez has revealed that he has in his head the possibility that the Executive will re-execute this constitutional article at a particularly delicate moment because in the next few days the Supreme Court will make the sentence of the prosecutor public . The president does not rule out that he is forced to take "extraordinary decisions" and has ensured that 155 is "a perfectly legitimate instrument." And so thoughtful it seems that he has already to act that he has announced how he will act at that moment.

The head of the Executive has indicated that three conditions will concur. A response of "democratic firmness" that will occur if Catalan institutions cross the lines of self-government, with the rest of the political forces to guarantee "unity" and with "proportionality".

Sanchez recalled will appeal to the Constitutional Court the resolutions that the independence majority passed last week in the Parliament passed last week calling for the departure of Catalonia from the Civil Guard, an institutional response against the 1-O ruling and a national agreement for amnesty, self-determination and civil and political rights and has also pointed to a requirement to the Bureau of the Catalan Chamber. Some of these motions alluded to issues challenged by the Constitutional that were included in the texts despite the refusal expressed by the lawyers.

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