Marta Belver Madrid
Madrid
Updated Tuesday, March 26, 2024-13:48
Sánchez appeals to the Constitutional Court to stop the Parliament's initiative in favor of independence
The Council of Ministers gave the green light this Tuesday to the appeal that it is going to present before the Constitutional Court (TC) against the decision of the
Parliament
table to admit for processing a popular legislative initiative to unilaterally declare the independence of Catalonia. The measure - advanced by
EL MUNDO
- will mean the "immediate" suspension of the processing.
"What is precisely protected is the Constitution, our framework for dialogue, the Statute of Catalonia itself and its self-government, which are regulated in norms that this proposal would also tear down," defended the Minister of the Presidency and Justice, Félix Bolaños.
The appeal of the central Executive is added to the one that the PSC had already presented in the same sense. In La Moncloa they justify that their presentation is "absolutely coherent" since "the processing is immediately paralyzed because the law says so, something that does not happen when it is filed by a parliamentary group."
"Of course, the Government and the PSOE in no case are committed to the independence and isolation of Catalonia with respect to Spain and the rest of Europe, of course not. What we want is the opposite: for Catalonia to be an essential part of Spain and the European Union," Bolaños remarked.