Barça supports demonstration against the Constitutional Court?s ruling that cuts the Catalan Statute

Barcelona (CNA).- The newly elected president of FC Barcelona, Sandro Rossell, has confirmed this Wednesday that the club will support the demonstration against the cuts on the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia. Last week, the Spanish Constitutional Court declared unconstitutional fourteen articles of the Statute and urged for an interpretation of 23 others, therefore reducing the scope of the devolved powers of Catalonia. The decision of the Court has been framed in Catalonia as an overturn of the people’s sovereignty, as the Statute was passed by both the Catalan and the Spanish Parliaments and voted in a referendum in 2006.

Rossell met with Muriel Casals, president of Òmnium Cultural, the civic organisation that is organising the protest. Rossell expressed his personal and institutional support for the demonstration, and he even applied to become a member of Òmnium Cultural.