Rajoy: The Catalan proposed resolution is contrary to the Constitution

USPA NEWS - In an urgent hearing called by the Moncloa Palace with only one hour in advance by SMS messages, the Spanish Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, said at midday on Tuesday the draft resolution of the Catalan secessionists "is contrary to the Constitution."

"The proposed resolution is contrary to the Constitution, laws and the feel of the Catalan" and "can only be understood as a provocation" of independence, Rajoy said, reading an official statement of the Spanish Government. The State, he said, "will not give up using all legal and political mechanisms that under the Constitution. Those who want to separate Catalonia from Spain will face the law." Nevertheless, Rajoy wanted to send a "message of peace" to the Spaniards, who promised that "while I am Prime Minister, Catalonia is not gained independence."

Asked what the Government will do if the regional Parliament of Catalonia fulfills its threat not to obey the decisions of the Spanish courts and in particular the Constitutional Court, Rajoy said that "we are all subject to the law and the resolutions of the courts." In this regard, he recalled that the recent reform of the Constitutional Court gives sanctioning capacity and stated that "the instruments of the Constitutional Court, I guarantee that this draft resolution will not have any effect."

Institutional statement read by Mariano Rajoy was previously agreed with the first opposition party, the PSOE Socialist Party, whose general secretary, Pedro Sanchez, agreed to maintain a permanent line of communication to address the challenge of independence. Also the general coordinator of United Left (IU its Spanish acronym), a coalition of leftist heir of the Communist Party, he was against a unilateral declaration of independence and called for the establishment of dialogue to avoid territorial breakdown of Spain.