Catalan president Carles Puigdemont has condemned Madrid’s announcement that it will sack the entire Catalan government and call new regional elections within six months in a bold attempt to crush the regional independence movement.
Mariano Rajoy, the Spanish prime minister, told a press conference on Saturday that Mr Puigdemont would be removed from office and ministries in the semi-autonomous region would be run from Madrid.
Speaking in Barcelona on Saturday night, Mr Puigdemont denounced Mr Rajoy’s move. He said the Spanish government was attempting the “worst attack on the institutions and people of Catalonia since the decrees of the military dictator Francisco Franco abolishing the Generalitat [parliament] of Catalonia”.
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