‘We can’t recognize the coup d’état against Catalonia,’ vice president Junqueras says

Oriol Junqueras, the Catalan vice president and minister of Economy, rejected on Sunday the measures against Catalonia’s self-rule imposed by Mariano Rajoy’s cabinet this weekend. Junqueras, who was dismissed on Saturday under Spanish law, wrote in an article in El Punt Avui newspaper that Puigdemont’s cabinet “can’t recognize the coup d’état against Catalonia and any of the antidemocratic decisions that the People’s Party is taking, through remote control from Madrid.” He added that “the president of the country is and will be Carles Puigdemont.” 

Besides, he called for a “common” strategy of all the parties and movements rejecting Rajoy’s measures, as the leader of far-left Podemos in Catalonia also demanded. Junqueras did not disclose whether he thinks pro-independence parties should take part in the snap election of December 21 in Catalonia imposed by Mariano Rajoy.