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Catalan party leaders agree self-rule referendum questions

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Catalan party leaders agree self-rule referendum questions El Paí­s España

Voters to be asked: “Do you want Catalonia to be a state?” And: “Do you want Catalonia to be an independent state?”


Miquel Noguer Barcelona


The head of the center-right nationalist CiU Catalan government, Artur Mas, and the leaders of the Catalan Republican Left (ERC), the Initiative for Catalonia Greens (ICV) and the left-wing CUP party reached an agreement on Thursday regarding the questions that would be posed were a referendum on self-rule for the northeastern region to be held.

After talks on Thursday morning, Mas, Oriol Junqueras of the ERC, Joan Herrera of the ICV and David Fernández of the CUP agreed on two questions. “Do you want Catalonia to be a state?” is the first, and should the respondent answer yes, they will then be asked: “Do you want Catalonia to be an independent state?” They also announced that they want the referendum be held on November 9, 2014.

The executive committees of the four parties concerned are expected to ratify the chosen questions at meetings to be held between Thursday and Friday.

ERC had been at odds with the other three parties in insisting that voters should be asked directly if they wanted Catalonia to be independent.

The conservative Popular Party (PP) government of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy insists that the Constitution bars Catalonia from holding a consultation of this kind on its own initiative and without Madrid’s consent.

The spokesman of the PP’s Catalan branch, Enric Millo described the announcement of the questions to be posed as “nonsense.” “Everyone knows that this referendum will not be held, but they insist on spinning this fantasy,” he told the regional assembly. It’s a false hope. This cynicism will end in frustration and can only lead to social confrontation.”

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