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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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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There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
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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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No Catalan citizen and no Catalan company will leave the E.U. That is evident, and nobody can dispute it.
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We cannot say no to what has already been approved by the citizens.
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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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I could not disobey the will of the Catalan parliament.
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It is crucial that there is a government in Madrid secure enough to engage with Catalonia politically rather than continue the denial and legal obstructionism of the Rajoy years.
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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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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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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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I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them.
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The return to normality is a defeat for the terrorists.
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The independence project in Catalonia is... a peaceful revolution, carried out in suit, shirt, and tie.
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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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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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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.
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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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The alternative to independence is decline, because the relationship with the Spanish state is not good; everyone knows that.