Carles Puigdemont Quotes
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A lot of people are angry about the democratic abuses that have been committed by the Spanish government.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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Catalan citizens are peaceful, European, and open-minded. We want to contribute to better international and European governance.
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To be honest, I am very worried about the possibility of the U.K. leaving the E.U. But of course, like in the case of Catalonia, we have to respect the right to decide of the British people on a relationship that part of the Brits consider is not satisfying enough.
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No Catalan citizen and no Catalan company will leave the E.U. That is evident, and nobody can dispute it.
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There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
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Catalan politics emancipated from the Spanish politics on September 27, 2015. Since then, we've acted with a sovereign mentality, political sovereignty.
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We show each day that we are prepared to act as an independence state... Not just in exceptional moments.
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We cannot say no to what has already been approved by the citizens.
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Our plan is what the Scottish government had with the U.K. It's an agreement to consult over the independence of Catalonia. And we will not abandon this plan until the end.
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I don't want to go to prison... but there is nothing they can do to me that will make me stop this referendum.
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They are very brave when they talk about other countries where they have no competencies, but where are they when we citizens need them? Is Europe's solution to Catalans to turn its back?
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There's no alternative to Catalan independence.
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We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.
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How can we later criticise other countries outside the European Union for adopting such measures to repress opponents when we are tolerating this inside the European Union with European citizens? Like me - I'm a European citizen.
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I could not disobey the will of the Catalan parliament.
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The independence project in Catalonia is... a peaceful revolution, carried out in suit, shirt, and tie.
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I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them.
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With Rajoy, there is a taboo topic, which is the aspiration of Catalonia to decide its future.
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We're seeing a reaction - and people taking to the streets with pots and pans - in areas where the independence movement isn't supposed to exist. People have to choose between one model and another. Everyone in Catalonia has realised that not taking part means ratifying the politics of repression of the Spanish government.
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He who calls a person a fascist for opposing independence is not only wrong but putting themselves on the same level as those who call us Nazis for wanting independence.
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European values, civil rights, freedom of speech, freedom of informatio,n and freedom of assembly are being violated by Spain's central government.
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In 2010, the Spanish constitutional court annulled a large part of the Catalan statute of autonomy negotiated between Catalonia and the previous prime minister, Jose Luis Zapatero. This demolished one of the main agreements achieved during the Spanish transition to democracy - Catalonia's recovery of self-governance.
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All we want is to carry out the greatest expression of a free democracy and vote on Catalonia's future. This is not about independence: it is about fundamental civil rights and the universal right of self-determination.