{"id":27359,"date":"2017-10-28T08:28:35","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T13:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27359"},"modified":"2017-10-28T08:28:35","modified_gmt":"2017-10-28T13:28:35","slug":"catalan-leader-urges-peaceful-rebellion-as-spain-takes-over-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27359","title":{"rendered":"Catalan Leader Urges “Peaceful” Rebellion As Spain Takes Over Government"},"content":{"rendered":"

Catalan Leader Urges “Peaceful” Rebellion As Spain Takes Over Government<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Update (0920ET): <\/strong>A Spanish government spokesman has responded to Puigdemont’s address, saying that “Spain will not comment on comments by Puigdemont who is out of a job.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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As we detailed earlier, in a pre-record message this morning, Catalan separtist leader Carles Puigdemont urged Catalans to peacefully oppose Spain’s formal takeover<\/strong> of the region’s affairs.<\/p>\n

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Puigdemont said the activation of article 155 of the Spanish Constitution was illegitimate<\/strong> and called on Catalans to show “patience, perseverance” and faith in the future<\/strong>, and urged “democratic opposition” against Spanish government orders<\/strong> to sack his administration and dismiss the regional parliament.<\/p>\n

As The Spain Report notes,<\/em><\/a> he announced he Catalans must “continue defending” their new republic “with a sense of civic responsibility,” <\/strong>adding “our will is to continue working to guarantee our democratic mandate”.<\/p>\n

The use of Article 155 to suspend home rule in Catalonia was a “premeditated attack on the majority will of Catalans” <\/em><\/strong>and “contrary” to democracy.<\/p>\n

Puigdemont also called on pro-independence Catalans to be respectful of fellow Catalans who are in favor of Catalonia remaining within Spain<\/strong>. Puigdemont didn\u2019t mention central government orders to remove him.<\/p>\n

Presumably, Puigdemont’s calls suggest a strategy designed to compare Madrid’s forcefulness to Catalan’s peaceful protest, perhaps in an effort to garner more international favor – as most of the ‘developed’ nations issued statements overnight declining to reecognize Catalonia and fully backing the establishment’s Spanish government.<\/p>\n

Live broadcasts showed Puigdemont in a bar in the town of Girona at the time of the televised speech<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Puigdemont declined to speak to reporters when he left the bar shortly after the speech.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Spain begins implementation of Article 155:<\/p>\n

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Catalan Leader Urges “Peaceful” Rebellion As Spain Takes Over Government Update (0920ET): A Spanish government spokesman has responded to Puigdemont’s address, saying that “Spain will not comment on comments by Puigdemont who is out of a job.” *\u00a0 *\u00a0 * As we detailed earlier, in a pre-record message this morning, Catalan separtist leader Carles Puigdemont […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[16413,117,968,743,4318],"class_list":["post-27359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-carles-puigdemont","tag-catalonia","tag-independence","tag-spain","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27360,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27359\/revisions\/27360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}