Inés Arrimadas
Leader of pro-unity party (click here) accuses Spanish PM of ‘being mortgaged’ to separatists
...Inés Arrimadas, (click here) the leader of the Catalan branch of the centre-right Ciudadanos party, which won the largest share of the vote in last December’s regional elections, has accused Torra’s government of neglecting and alienating the majority of Catalans who do not support independence.
“What really hurts me most is them portraying all Catalans as pro-independence,” she told the Guardian.
“That’s not true. Right now in Catalonia, there’s a big and very important minority of people who want independence and a majority of Catalans who don’t. But we’re all Catalans and we all deserve respect and a government that respects and defends all of us. But they don’t see that because their thinking is exclusive.”
Arrimadas accused Sánchez of “being mortgaged” to the separatist parties after relying on their support to topple Rajoy, whose People’s party has been embroiled in a series of corruption scandals.
“The PSOE got into government without a plan for government or a parliamentary majority and they’re improvising,” she said. “The only decisions they’ve taken so far are the ones that benefit the nationalists.”
She said existing electoral law needed to be changed as it meant that Catalan separatist parties were over-represented in parliament.
“In Catalonia, the pro-independence parties have 47% of the vote – not even a simple majority – but an absolute majority in seats because of the law that favours them,” she said. “That’s unfair and it’s crazy. In what country would you have a law that gives more power to those who want to break up the country?”...
Beginning of translation of interview below:
http://www.ciudadanos-cs.org
RNE, 05/29/17
Inés Arrimadas (click here) : "In the same week that Puigdemont announces another meeting for the monothema, Cs presents a Law to fight against corruption"
The national spokeswoman of Cs defends that its party has been "decisive" to "incorporate improvements that are good for all" in the PGE, as that "there are no cuts or tax increases"
"In the same week that Puigdemont announces another meeting for the monothema, Ciudadanos presents a Law to fight against corruption." This has been said by the national spokesperson for Citizens (Cs) and head of the opposition in Catalonia, Inés Arrimadas, in an interview in RNE's 'Las Mañanas' on the same day that the President of the Generalitat, Carles Puigdemont, has summoned the separatist parties to "talk about the monothema" while from the orange formation measures are proposed that are "good for all Catalans", such as the Law to protect whistleblowers for political corruption or the interpellation on the Metro L9 that will be debated in the plenary session of the Parlament this week....
Beginning of translation of interview below:
http://www.ciudadanos-cs.org
RNE, 05/29/17
Inés Arrimadas (click here) : "In the same week that Puigdemont announces another meeting for the monothema, Cs presents a Law to fight against corruption"
The national spokeswoman of Cs defends that its party has been "decisive" to "incorporate improvements that are good for all" in the PGE, as that "there are no cuts or tax increases"
"In the same week that Puigdemont announces another meeting for the monothema, Ciudadanos presents a Law to fight against corruption." This has been said by the national spokesperson for Citizens (Cs) and head of the opposition in Catalonia, Inés Arrimadas, in an interview in RNE's 'Las Mañanas' on the same day that the President of the Generalitat, Carles Puigdemont, has summoned the separatist parties to "talk about the monothema" while from the orange formation measures are proposed that are "good for all Catalans", such as the Law to protect whistleblowers for political corruption or the interpellation on the Metro L9 that will be debated in the plenary session of the Parlament this week....
