[politics] Sánchez closes the door again to the independence referendum requested by Aragonès

[Kyro]

 

it belongs to the past” and Pedro Sánchez does not contemplate in any case granting the Catalan independence movement what has now become its main demand: the holding of a referendum on self-determination, this time agreed with the State. A consultation that the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, demanded again the day before. “These are past debates, the Constitution does not recognize the right to independence of any territory. They can claim what they want, but of course it will not happen. It does not fit in the Constitution or in any Magna Carta of any country in the world”, Sánchez has settled this Tuesday, in the traditional appearance in La Moncloa to take stock of the year. “How many times have they said that an independence referendum is going to be held in Catalonia? I lost the count. Instead, two referendums and a unilateral declaration of independence were held with the PP government”, he remarked in an act in which the economy has been the main protagonist.

The president stressed that Spain has a GDP growth forecast of more than 5% despite the uncertainty due to the economic and social consequences of the invasion of Ukraine, the lowest inflation in the euro area -6.8% compared to 11.1% - or the 20 million members of Social Security and unemployment of 12.7%, figures that have not occurred since the Great Recession of 2008. But it has been the political message of overcoming the process, with the repeal of crime of sedition and the reduction of embezzlement as the last step after the granting of pardons in June 2021, which has marked the accountability of Sánchez.

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