17.02.2016 - 03:55
Barcelona (CNA).- The competences of the new Catalan Ministry for Foreign Affairs will be taken before the Spanish Constitutional Court (TC) as they may violate some of the Spanish executive’s competences. The commission to study the constitutive process of a potential Catalan Republic, which was approved on Thursday during the new government’s first plenary session, will also be appealed. The Catalan Government’s spokeswoman, Neus Munté, has insisted on the “absolute constitutionality” of the new ministry and assured that the Government is “doing everything within the law”. On the other hand, Spain’s executive will not impugn new Catalan President Carles Puigdemont’s taking office, during which Puigdemont didn’t mention Spain’s King nor the Spanish Constitution.
“Undoubtedly, this government must have the necessary agility and caution to avoid that certain things which wanted to be done in a certain way wouldn’t finally by achieved through another” stated acting Spanish Government’s vice president, Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría. According to her, the reports ordered to the State Attorney have concluded that the competences of the new Catalan Ministry for Foreign Affairs, led by former MEP Raül Romeva, develop the Law of Foreign Action of the Catalan Government, which was appealed before the TC as well. Although the Court lift the automatic suspension of the law, “there is no firm sentence yet”. This is what motivated the Spain’s executive appeal, explained Sáenz de Santamaría.
Regarding the appeal against the commission to study the constitutive process of a potential Catalan Republic, Sáenz de Santamaría noted that the Catalan Government’s first aim was to make it “a legislative” commission but they decided to turn it into a “commission of study” at the sight of its possible unconstitutionality, she expressed.
Finally, the State Attorney’s report concluded that despite President Puigdemont didn’t mention the Spanish Constitution during his taking office ceremony, he did so when he took office as MP.
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