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Madrid Gives Catalonia 5 Day Ultimatum To Clarify If It Declared Independence<\/a><\/h3>\n
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With Spain\u2019s prime minister having opened earlier in the day the path for Madrid to use a constitutional \u201cnuclear option\u201d to suspend Catalonia\u2019s autonomy, demanding that the regional government makes clear whether it considers itself independent, moments ago Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy gave Catalan President Carles Puigdemont a five day ultimatum to clarify whether he actually declared the region’s independence in his speech devoted to the highly controversial referendum, and another 3 to “rectify it.”<\/p>\n

The news comes after Rajoy said earlier on Wednesday that the cabinet of ministers asked for clarification on the issue of autonomous region’s independence.\u00a0 As reported earlier, Rajoy decided to take the first step towards triggering Article 155 of the Spanish constitution, which would give Madrid previously unused powers to take control of Catalonia\u2019s regional government, after an emergency cabinet meeting on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Rajoy said his formal request for clarity was \u201cnecessary when activating Article 155\u201d and would dictate the next steps in the crisis to \u201coffer certainty to the citizens\u201d.<\/p>\n

Using Article 155 to suspend Catalan autonomy would deepen the constitutional crisis in Spain since Catalonia held a contested referendum on independence on October 1. Spain\u2019s government says Catalonia\u2019s independence drive is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n

The prime minister also said that the “illegal referendum”\u00a0 has failed, adding that Catalan authorities lack the legitimacy to propose a unilateral declaration of independence. He underlined that the vote undermines our democracy, Spanish unity and the Statute of Catalonia.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, as AP reports<\/a>, there were signs that the government was trying to take some steps to de-escalate the situation. Pedro Sanchez, the head of the opposition socialists, said on Wednesday that his party and the ruling centre-right PP party had agreed to talks to renegotiate laws governing regional autonomy.<\/p>\n

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