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Spain dismissed Catalonia’s president and Cabinet, and dissolved its Parliament on Friday hours after lawmakers in the autonomous region defied Madrid and voted to declare independence. The Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont, has pulled the region back from the brink of an unprecedented showdown with the Spanish government by announcing that he will suspend a declaration of independence to pursue negotiations in the hope of resolving Spain’s worst political crisis for 40 years. The Catalan nation, its language and its culture have a thousand years of history. For centuries, Catalonia has been endowed with and enjoyed its own institutions that have fully exercised self-gov-ernment, with the Generalitat as the greatest expression of the historic rights of Catalonia. During periods of freedom, parlia-mentarianism has been the pedestal upon which these institutions have The Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont, has pulled the region back from the brink of an unprecedented showdown with the Spanish government by announcing that he will suspend a declaration of independence to pursue negotiations in the hope of resolving Spain’s worst political crisis for 40 years, The Guardian reports. Addressing the Catalan parliament on Tuesday [] The Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont, has pulled the region back from the brink of an unprecedented showdown with the Spanish government by proposing the suspension of a declaration of independence to allow for negotiations to resolve Spain’s worst political crisis for 40 years. Catalan President Carles Puigdemont and other regional leaders have signed a declaration of independence from Spain, following the disputed referendum. However, they say the move will not be The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with Spanish government policy, said that the government of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy couldn’t accept validating a Catalan referendum law that was suspended by Spain’s Constitution and called the referendum “fraudulent and illegal.” Rajoy’s government “considers it inadmissible to make an implicit declaration of After the declaration, the Spanish government said it will depose the Catalan President Carles Puigdemont and his cabinet, allowing Madrid to directly administer the breakaway region. The We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. The Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont, has pulled the region back from the brink of an unprecedented showdown with the Spanish government by announcing that he will suspend a declaration of independence to pursue negotiations in the hope of resolving Spain’s worst political crisis for 40 years. On 1 October, a disputed referendum was held in Catalonia, asking whether the region should be an independent state. This vote was suspended by Spain's Constitutional Court, which later Barcelona: Catalonia's leader Carles Puigdemont said on Tuesday he accepted the "mandate of the people" for the region to become "an independent republic," but proposed suspending its immediate Catalonia's leader Carles Puigdemont stepped back from the prink of secession from Spain on Tuesday night, instead issuing a suspended declaration of independence and opening the door to talks Spain's Constitutional Court officially annulled the Catalan parliament's Oct. 27 unilateral declaration of independence on Wednesday, a widely expected ruling after the move was suspended by President Carles Puigdemont says he will pursue negotiations with Spanish government in hope of resolving conflict Please subscribe HERE The Catalan government reported a 90% vote in favor of independence, with a 43% turnout. Independence opponents boycotted the referendum, deeming it illegal. The referendum's legitimacy was widely disputed due to various procedural anomalies and the absence of validation by an independent entity. The Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont, has pulled the region back from the brink of an unprecedented showdown with the Spanish government by proposing the suspension of a declaration of independence to allow for negotiations to resolve Spain’s worst political crisis for 40 years. The magistrates of the Spanish Constitutional Court (TC) have unanimously declared the Parliament's declaration of independence unconstitutional and, therefore, invalid. But five years ago, the regional government there sought to declare its autonomy from Spain through a failed declaration of independence. A violent crackdown ensued. Half a decade on, what’s A Catalan independence protest in July 2010 The Catalan independence movement (Catalan: independentisme català; [a] Spanish: independentismo catalán; Occitan: independentisme catalan) is a social and political movement with roots in Catalan nationalism that seeks the independence of Catalonia from Spain. While proposals, organizations and individuals advocating for Catalan independence or
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