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| Catalan officials won’t follow Madrid orders, but will of Catalan people – region’s spokesman | Catalan officials won’t follow Madrid orders, but will of Catalan people – region’s spokesman |
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| Catalan authorities will not follow orders from Madrid, but will only listen to the will of the Catalan people, Catalonia’s Foreign Affairs spokesman told BBC Radio. | |
| All institutions, including police, need to follow instructions from the democratically-elected Catalan government, the region’s foreign affairs spokesman, Raul Romeva, told BBC radio. | |
| According to the official, EU democracy cannot be trusted if it allows Madrid to impose direct rule on Catalonia. | |
| “How can the European Union live with that situation if it appears?” he said, “How can they be credible if they allow this to happen? Because what I can tell you is that the people and the institutions in Catalonia would not let this… happen.” | |
| READ MORE: Catalan leader: Madrid’s steps toward direct rule are ‘worst attacks’ since Franco’s dictatorship | |
| In the meantime, Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría said that Madrid has not had any contact with the Catalan regional government since Saturday, Reuters reported. | |
| The Spanish government may choose a single representative to temporarily govern Catalonia, she added. | |
| Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont will lose his powers and no longer receive a salary if the Senate approves direct intervention, Santamaría said. | |
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