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Catalan Independence 2018
Catalan Independence 2018 On October 1, 2017, the Catalan Government headed by Carles Puigdemont of the Junts per Catalunya parliamentary alliance held a referendum on the future independence of Catalonia. A semi-autonomous region within Spain, Catalonia enjoyed comparatively larger self-governance than many of Spain’s other regions after Francisco Franco’s rule ended in 1975. While independence has had relatively strong support in recent years, a final decision has remained elusive due to inconclusive elections, referenda, and political opposition from Madrid. The 2017 referendum recorded 92% of respondents favoring Catalan independence. However, only 43% of registered voters voted in the election marred by domestic and national opposition. The government nonetheless pushed through, declaring itself independent on October 27th. Declaring the referendum and declaration illegal, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy dismissed the Catalan Generalitat and renewed elections. Puigdemont and his cabinet subsequently fled to Brussels, the headquarters of the European Union. This committee takes place in Catalonia, but Puigdemont remains in exile and his former vice president, Oriol Junqueras, remains in prison. This cabinet consists of fifteen members of Junts pel Sí (Together for Yes) who had not been prosecuted by the Spanish Government after the referendum, and five Spanish representatives sent from Madrid to ensure compliance. Each Catalan member will have access to powers retained after the dissolution of parliament and powers temporarily withheld by Madrid in response to the crisis. Each Spanish member starts with greater powers given by the Spanish government, but will lose some power if and when Madrid deems the situation more under control. -
CP 12/19 En El Saló De Cent De La Casa De
Secretaría General Ref.: CP 12/19 En el Saló de Cent de la Casa de la Ciudad de Barcelona, el QUINCE de JUNIO de DOS MIL DIECINUEVE, se reúnen los Iltres. Sres. y las Iltres. Sras. Elisenda Alamany i Gutiérrez, Maria Rosa Alarcón Montañés, Elsa Artadi i Vila, Eloi Badia Casas, Montserrat Ballarín Espuña, María Magdalena (Marilén) Barceló Verea, Eva Baró i Ramos, Albert Batlle Bastardas, Montserrat Benedí i Altés, Laia Bonet Rull, José Bou Vila, Maria Buhigas i San José, Jordi Castellana i Gamisans, Ada Colau Ballano, Jaume Collboni Cuadrado, Celestino Corbacho Chaves, Jordi Coronas i Martorell, David Escudé Rodríguez, Joaquim Forn i Chiariello, María Luz Guilarte Sánchez, Ernest Maragall i Mira, Francesc Xavier Marcé Carol, Margarita Marí-Klose, Jordi Martí i Galbis, Jordi Martí Grau, Lucía Martín González, Ferran Mascarell i Canalda, Neus Munté i Fernández, Eva Parera Escrichs, Laura Pérez Castaño, Miquel Puig i Raposo, Jordi Rabassa Massons, Óscar Ramírez Lara, Janet Sanz Cid, Gemma Sendra i Planas, Marc Serra Solé, Francisco (Paco) Sierra López, Joan Subirats Humet, Gemma Tarafa Orpinell, Manuel Valls Galfetti, Max Zañartu i Plaza, quienes han entregado anteriormente la respectiva credencial de concejalas y concejales electos de este Ayuntamiento a la Secretaría General de la Corporación. En cumplimiento del que disponen los artículos 195.2 de la Ley orgánica 5/1985, de 19 de junio, del régimen electoral general, y 37.2 del Reglamento de organización, funcionamiento y régimen jurídico de las entidades locales, ruego al concejal electo de mayor edad y no candidato a la Alcaldía, Sr. Celestino CORBACHO CHAVES, y al concejal electo de menor edad, Sr. -
The Regions of Spain
© 2017 American University Model United Nations Conference All rights reserved. No part of this background guide may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means whatsoever without express written permission from the American University Model United Nations Conference Secretariat. Please direct all questions to [email protected] A NOTE Julia Clark Chair Estimats Diputats del Parlament de Catalunya, Dear Diputats of the Parliament of Catalonia, My name is Julia Clark and I’ll be serving as your Chair for the Parliament of Catalonia. I cannot wait to meet all of you in February. Time is of the essence and the Catalan Republic needs creating! As for a little bit about myself: MUN is my life! Last year, I served on the AmeriMUNC Secretariat as the Charges D’Affaires and currently I am an Assistant Head Delegate of the AU Model United Nations competitive travel team. I have done MUN for seven years, competing at 24 conferences across the US and Canada, and I once chaired a conference in the Netherlands! I’m proud to say that AmeriMUNC will be my eighth time chairing. Outside of MUN, I am also the President of my sorority, Phi Mu. If you have any questions about greek life or collegiate MUN, I’d love to chat via email or at the conference. I’m personally very excited to be forming our own new nation, the Catalan Republic. I just studied abroad for four months in Madrid, Spain and was at the center of the real life action surrounding the Catalan independence movement. -
Catalonia, Spain and Europe on the Brink: Background, Facts, And
Catalonia, Spain and Europe on the brink: background, facts, and consequences of the failed independence referendum, the Declaration of Independence, the arrest and jailing of Catalan leaders, the application of art 155 of the Spanish Constitution and the calling for elections on December 21 A series of first in history. Examples of “what is news” • On Sunday, October 1, Football Club Barcelona, world-known as “Barça”, multiple champion in Spanish, European and world competitions in the last decade, played for the first time since its foundation in 1899 at its Camp Nou stadium, • Catalan independence leaders were taken into custody in “sedition and rebellion” probe • Heads of grassroots pro-secession groups ANC and Omnium were investigated over September incidents Results • Imprisonment of Catalan independence leaders gives movement new momentum: • Asamblea Nacional Catalana (Jordi Sànchez) and • Òmnium Cultural (Jordi Cuixart), • Thousands march against decision to jail them • Spain’s Constitutional Court strikes down Catalan referendum law • Key background: • The Catalan Parliament had passed two laws • One would attempt to “disengage” the Catalan political system from Spain’s constitutional order • The second would outline the bases for a “Republican Constitution” of an independent Catalonia The Catalan Parliament factions • In the Parliament of Catalonia, parties explicitly supporting independence are: • Partit Demòcrata Europeu Català (Catalan European Democratic Party; PDeCAT), formerly named Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya -
La Liga Iberoamericana
Documento de trabajo Agenda prevista completa La Liga Iberoamericana 26 de abril, 2017 Martes 2 de mayo 2017 Lugar: Centre Esplai/ El Prat de Llobregat/Barcelona. Actividad Lugar Comentarios 9.00 Visita guiada a Centre Centre Invitados/as: Esplai Esplai, Delegaciones El Prat de iberoamericanas Llobregat 10.00 Inicio de la reunión de Centre Invitados/as: Junta Directiva de La Liga Esplai, Junta Directiva de La Iberoamericana El Prat de Liga Llobregat 10.00 Actividades de la agenda El Prat de Invitados/as: social, cultural y turística Llobregat Delegaciones “Parque Agrario del Prat de iberoamericanas Llobregat” 12:00 Acreditaciones Recepción Invitados/as: Centre -Delegaciones Esplai iberoamericanas El Prat de -Jóvenes Semana Llobregat -Jóvenes Valor -Comisión Delegada Fundesplai - Comité Ejecutivo Fundesplai -Comité Director y Técnico del Foro 13.00 Recepción Ayuntamiento de Ayuntamie Invitados/as: El Prat de Llobregat. nto del -Delegaciones Bienvenida por parte del Sr. Prat de iberoamericanas Lluís Tejedor, Alcalde de El Prat Llobregat -Jóvenes Semana de Llobregat. -Jóvenes Valor Refrigerio/almuerzo -Comisión Delegada Fundesplai - Comité Ejecutivo Fundesplai -Comité Director y Técnico del Foro 100 personas 16.00 Acreditaciones en el Parlament Invitados/as: Parlament de Catalunya. de 80 personas Catalunya Barcelona 2 16.30 Recepción en el Parlament Parlament Invitados/as: de Catalunya. de Delegaciones Sra. Carme Forcadell, Catalunya iberoamericanas Presidenta del Parlament de Barcelona -Comisión Delegada Catalunya. En hemiciclo. Fundesplai -
Should Politicians Be Prosecuted for Statements Made in the Exercise of Their Mandate?
Provisional version Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights Should politicians be prosecuted for statements made in the exercise of their mandate? Report Rapporteur: Mr Boriss Cilevičs, Latvia, Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group A. Draft resolution 1. The Assembly stresses the crucial importance, in a living democracy, of politicians being able to freely exercise their mandates. This requires a particularly high level of protection of politicians’ freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, both in parliament and when speaking to their constituents in public meetings or through the media. 2. The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR, the Convention) protects everyone’s freedom of speech, including the right to make statements that “shock or disturb” those who do not share the same opinions, as established in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights (the Court). 3. The Assembly also notes that freedom of speech is not unlimited. Hate speech condoning violence against certain persons or groups of persons on the grounds of race, origin, religion or political opinions, as well as calls for the violent overthrow of democratic institutions are not protected. Politicians even have a special responsibility, due to their high visibility, to refrain from such abuses. 4. Everyone, and in particular politicians, has the right to make proposals whose implementation would require changes of the constitution, provided the means advocated are peaceful and legal and the objectives do not run contrary to the fundamental principles of democracy and human rights. 5. This includes calls to change a centralist constitution into a federal or confederal one, or vice versa, or to change the legal status and powers of territorial (local and regional) entities, including to grant them a high degree of autonomy or even independence. -
New Perspectives on Nationalism in Spain • Carsten Jacob Humlebæk and Antonia María Ruiz Jiménez New Perspectives on Nationalism in Spain
New Perspectives on Nationalism in Spain in Nationalism on Perspectives New • Carsten Humlebæk Jacob and Antonia María Jiménez Ruiz New Perspectives on Nationalism in Spain Edited by Carsten Jacob Humlebæk and Antonia María Ruiz Jiménez Printed Edition of the Special Issue Published in Genealogy www.mdpi.com/journal/genealogy New Perspectives on Nationalism in Spain New Perspectives on Nationalism in Spain Editors Carsten Humlebæk Antonia Mar´ıaRuiz Jim´enez MDPI • Basel • Beijing • Wuhan • Barcelona • Belgrade • Manchester • Tokyo • Cluj • Tianjin Editors Carsten Humlebæk Antonia Mar´ıa Ruiz Jimenez´ Copenhagen Business School Universidad Pablo de Olavide Denmark Spain Editorial Office MDPI St. Alban-Anlage 66 4052 Basel, Switzerland This is a reprint of articles from the Special Issue published online in the open access journal Genealogy (ISSN 2313-5778) (available at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/genealogy/special issues/perspective). For citation purposes, cite each article independently as indicated on the article page online and as indicated below: LastName, A.A.; LastName, B.B.; LastName, C.C. Article Title. Journal Name Year, Article Number, Page Range. ISBN 978-3-03943-082-6 (Hbk) ISBN 978-3-03943-083-3 (PDF) c 2020 by the authors. Articles in this book are Open Access and distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which allows users to download, copy and build upon published articles, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited, which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. The book as a whole is distributed by MDPI under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND. -
Reagrupament Continuarà Sent Guionista De La Història De Catalunya. | 17-11-2012 | 10:52
Reagrupament continuarà sent guionista de la història de Catalunya. | 17-11-2012 | 10:52 V Assemblea Nacional Amb el missatge del president Joan Carretero, que ha llegit la vicepresidenta Rut Carandell, que Reagrupament ha de treballar per continuar sent el guionista de la història, s'ha clos aquest migdia de diumenge la V assemblea Nacional de la formació independentista, que s'ha iniciat puntualment a les 10 del matí, amb la presència de més 300 associats a la sala Marià Vila d'Abadal de l'Edifici El Sucre de Vic, amb el Cant de la Senyera, la benvinguda per part de Reagrupament Osona i la intervenció de l'alcalde de la ciutat, Josep-Maria Vila d'Abadal. La vicepresidenta ha afegit que a partir de la presa de posició hem tingut contactes amb CDC i que el president Artur Mas va trucar personalment el president Joan Carretero per agrair-li el suport de Reagrupament. L'actual president de l'Associació de Municipis Independentistes (AMI) ha agraït als reagrupats que per segona vegada, en menys d'un any i mig, hagin escollit la capital d'Osona per celebrar l'assemblea nacional. Vila d'Abadal ha destacat que "la mania del catalanisme de buscar l'encaix amb Espanya ens ha distret durant 130 anys" i ha encoratjat els associats a continuar endavant amb els objectius de transversalitat i regeneració democràtica. Per a l'alcalde vigatà el moviment nascut l'11S és un moviment social. "I això no pot decaure. No donem la torxa als polítics. Els partits faran tàctica política i nosaltres hem de ser ferms per un estat lliure i independent", ha afegit Rut Carandell, que ha estat l'encarregada, en absència del president, de fer l'informe anual, ha donat especial rellevància a la decisió presa per la Junta Directiva Nacional de donar suport, en les pròximes eleccions plebiscitàries, al president Mas. -
International BRIEFING the Case
The Spanish Supreme Court’s decision on the self-determination referendum in Catalonia held on 1 October 2017 Report by: Ferran Requejo (dir.) Gerard Martín Helena Mora Albert Morales Linguistic adaptation from Catalan to English: Ander Errasti and Mireia Grau. Barcelona, December 2020 © Generalitat de Catalunya. Government of Catalonia Institut d’Estudis de l’Autogovern. Institute of Self-Government Studies (http://presidencia.gencat.cat/iea) Design: Autonomous Entity of the Official Gazette and the Publications Dept. Contents 1. Introduction. Purpose of this briefing ............................................................................ 07 2. Summary of the report .................................................................................................. 10 2.1 The use of language in the Supreme Court’s decision ............................................. 10 2.2 Pleas of facts ............................................................................................................ 12 2.3 Individual and collective rights at stake ................................................................... 13 2.4 The typology of the crimes ...................................................................................... 16 2.5 The allocation of responsibilities and the prison sentences for the prosecuted individuals ................................................................................................................ 18 3. Four final remarks looking at the future ........................................................................ -
L'exalcalde De Cerdanyola Toni Morral, Escollit Secretari General De La Crida
Política | NacióDigital | Actualitzat el 26/01/2019 a les 18:44 L'exalcalde de Cerdanyola Toni Morral, escollit secretari general de la Crida L'expresident de l'ANC Jordi Sànchez assumeix la presidència al capdavant d'una cúpula amb Artadi, Mascarell, Calvet, Borràs i Pep Andreu com a principals reclams Els membres de la direcció de la Crida, durant el congrés constituent | Julio Díaz / Crida Nacional per la República La Crida Nacional per la República ja té direcció política. L'encapçalen Jordi Sànchez com a president i l'exalcalde de Cerdanyola del Vallès Toni Morral com a secretari general, que es posen al capdavant d'un equip en el qual destaquen els consellers Elsa Artadi, Damià Calvet i Laura Borràs (https://www.naciodigital.cat/noticia/171965/equip/sanchez/es/proposa/implantar/crida/al/territori/c ulminar/mandat/1-o) , implicats des del primer moment en la fundació del nou moviment. La llista, per descomptat, comptava amb l'aval de Carles Puigdemont des de Waterloo i Quim Torra des de Palau. El suport a Sànchez i Morral ha estat de 2.417 vots, mentre que Jordi Ferrés i Oriol Izquierdo han sumat 115 sufragis. Rosario Palomino i Gerard Sesé, que no eren a la llista oficialista, han conseguit entrar a la cúpula gràcies al vot dels congressistes. La candidatura dels dos màxims dirigents del nou projecte compta amb la presència de Josep Andreu, dirigent d'ERC i alcalde de Montblanc, i de persones que formaven part del secretariat nacional en etapes anteriors. Les més votades han estat Laura Borràs i Elsa Artadi, amb més de https://www.naciodigital.cat/sabadell/noticia/22449/exalcalde-cerdanyola-toni-morral-escollit-secretari-general-crida Pagina 1 de 23 2.000 vots. -
CATALONIA, YEAR 2016 Joaquín Tornos Mas Tenured Professor Of
CATALONIA, YEAR 2016 Joaquín Tornos Mas Tenured Professor of Administrative Law Universitat de Barcelona On 15 March, the Instituto de Derecho Público presented its yearly Report on the Autonomous Communities in the Senate. The Report includes amongst others the assessment of the political and institutional activity carried out in Catalonia in 2016. Some highlights: As regards political activity, the following should be underlined. On 10 January Carles Puigdemont was appointed President of the Government of Catalonia by a vote of 70-63 thanks to two pro-independence parties, more specifically, to the 62 deputies of Junts pel Sí (Together for Yes) and eight deputies of CUP (Popular Unity Candidacy, two of which abstained from voting). After months of negotiating the new budgets proposed by the Government, however, CUP refused them over and over again and in June they had not still been adopted. In order to overcome the political crisis arising from this situation, a motion of no-confidence was presented against the Catalan President. On 27 September the motion of no-confidence did not succeed thanks to the votes of Junts pel Sí and CUP. CUP voted for the President in exchange for the Government’s promise to hold a referendum on the independence of Catalonia in 2017. However, they did not guarantee they would vote for the new budget as well. As a consequence, President Puigdemont was forced to launch, on 23 December, the National Referendum Pact and confirm he would hold a referendum in 2017, whether agreed with the national Government or unilateral (“the Catalan response to the national Government is ‘referendum or referendum’”). -
Defendcataloniasaveeu
#DefendCataloniaSaveEU On the 9th of March 2021, the European Parliament waived the parliamentary immunity of three Catalan MEPs – Carles Puigdemont, Toni Comín, and Clara Ponsatí, a new example of Spain’s repressive actions against the Catalan people’s political and social representatives. Together with the case of Oriol Junqueras, elected MEP in detention in Spain sentenced to 13 years for organising a democratic referendum, Spain is incurring in the violation of the right to vote and right of political and public participation of more than two million European citizens. This took place after the Catalan people’s right to self-determination has been repeatedly violated by Spain, as well as their rights to freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and association, and political participation. In this sense, it is important to recall that organising a referendum without the central government’s consent is not an offense under Spanish law, as the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention pointed out in June 2019. Nine Catalan civil and political leaders have been in prison for more than three years, including six former members of the Catalan government, the former speaker of the Parliament of Catalonia, and two civil society leaders, sentenced to between 9 and 13 years on charges of sedition and others, crimes that have not been deemed as such by Courts in Germany, Scotland, or Belgium. In the case of Lluís Puig, former Catalan Minister of Culture in exile, for whom the Spanish justice issued an arrest warrant, the Belgian justice has recently affirmed that the Spanish Supreme Court does not have the authority to try former members of the Catalan government and raised concerns on the fact that Lluis Puig' presumption of innocence could be at risk in Spain.