{"id":331506,"date":"2017-10-21T20:16:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T19:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/spanish-socialist-party-demands-new-elections-in-catalonia\/"},"modified":"2017-10-21T20:16:15","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T19:16:15","slug":"spanish-socialist-party-demands-new-elections-in-catalonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/spanish-socialist-party-demands-new-elections-in-catalonia\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Socialist Party demands new elections in Catalonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Spanish Socialist Party demands new elections in Catalonia<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Paul Mitchell<br \/>\n    <br \/>21 October 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Spain\u2019s Socialist Party (PSOE) has taken centre stage in the Spanish ruling elite\u2019s invocation of Article 155 of the Spanish constitution, paving the way for the suspension of Catalan autonomy and the imposition of an unelected regime in Catalonia.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, PSOE Equality Secretary Carmen Calvo announced in an interview on national television an agreement with the Popular Party (PP) government and Citizens to dissolve the Catalan regional government (Generalitat) and hold new regional elections in Catalonia in January. This overturns the legal right of regional governments to call such elections, in place since the end of the fascist dictatorship of General Francisco Franco.<\/p>\n<p>The new elections are part of a plethora of anti-democratic repressive measures being put in place under Article 155 to suspend the region\u2019s autonomy. They include the dissolution and reorganisation of the Catalan news channel TV3 and Catalunya R\u00e0dio, the regional Mossos d\u2019Esquadra (Catalan police) and the Education Ministry, accused of indoctrinating schoolchildren in Catalan nationalism, and the possible banning of parties that promote independence. Economy Minister Crist\u00f3bal Montoro (PP) has already been in control of the finances of the Generalitat since September.<\/p>\n<p>Should the PSOE\u2019s elections in Catalonia go ahead as planned by Madrid, they would be held at gunpoint, under the auspices of a regional administration controlled by Spanish police and military units now preparing to move against the Generalitat under the terms of Article 155.<\/p>\n<p>In the interview Calvo declared, \u201cYes, [PSOE] Secretary General Pedro S\u00e1nchez is clear that it is necessary to take Catalonia to an election.\u201d She&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/10\/21\/psoe-o21.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Spanish Socialist Party demands new elections in Catalonia By Paul Mitchell 21 October 2017 Spain\u2019s Socialist Party (PSOE) has taken centre stage in the Spanish ruling elite\u2019s invocation of Article 155 of the Spanish constitution, paving the way for the suspension of Catalan autonomy and the imposition of an unelected regime in Catalonia. On [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-331506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}