No independence for Catalonia. The Spanish Constitutional Court has in fact revoked the motion on the independence of Catalonia approved in November by the Catalan Parliament, which provided for the start of the process of separating the region from the rest of Spain in order to establish an independent republic within 18 months. The news was given today by the online edition of El Pais: the motion had been suspended by the same Constitutional Court last November 11 pending its final decision, which arrived today.
The Court's pronouncement came after the appeal presented by the Madrid government. On 11 November the Spanish Constitutional Court, again unanimously, had in fact declared the appeal by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's government is admissible and suspended as a precautionary measure the motion with which the Parliament of Barcelona had opened the process towards the independence of Catalonia. The reply from the regional government had arrived by return of post: "The political will of the Catalan executive is to go forward", declared the Vice President Neus Munté.
The secessionist parties have in fact replied that they may not obey the decisions of the "Spanish institutions, and in particular of the Constitutional Court", which they consider "delegitimized".
