Junqeras threatens to "stop the Catalan economy" a week to press Spain

ERC threatens to drive a general strike if the government Spanish Catalonia does not reconsider its position and allows celebrate the query. " If we got to two million people to the streets ... who said we could not stop the Catalan economy for a week? " Oriol Junqueras raised in Brussels , at the end of a conference on the right to decide organized in Parliament European . "We also have our instruments ," warned Junqueras . The effects of a break in the Catalan economy would be felt throughout the state , he argues, and could affect the stability of financial markets .
" What is the impact on GDP Spanish ? What opinion have the Spanish debt creditors ? And what about the Spanish risk premium ? " Junqueras wondered at in his closing remarks . " All the institutions must decide whether the democratic principle prevails prevails performance or de facto by the state ," concluded the leader of ERC . During the conference , organized by the European Free Alliance parliamentary group to which they belong ERC , BNG and Aralar , among others , Junqueras has asked the EU to endorse the self inquiry from Catalunya claimed : " The Catalans are citizens of the EU and the EU needs to ensure respect for the democratic rights of its citizens. "
The right of self-determination has been in the twentieth century a " normal and customary law " that has been exercised , among others, by Western democracies as Norway, Ireland and Iceland , has argued . Republican leader has argued that it is legitimate referendum Catalans speak out regardless of what the Constitution says , because " no legal framework can coerce democracy." He warned that the state " can not prohibit indefinitely " the Catalans speak out , so eventually Catalonia will vote in a referendum first and parliamentary elections later or vice versa.