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Catalan Government Spokeswoman, Neus Munté, referred this Tuesday to the Constitutional Court’s decision to ban from public office the political figures responsible for the 9-N symbolic vote on independence, which took place in 2014. According to Munté, sentencing former Catalan President Artur Mas, former Vice President Joana Ortega and former Catalan Minister for Education Irene Rigau for allowing the non-binding consultation “confirm the Spanish State’s absolute lack of willingness to find a political solution” to Catalonia’s aspirations. However, far from “disqualifying” them, Munté assured that the Government “counts on” the three summonsed “to explain” to the world “how weak democracy is in Spain".

Former Portugal President, Socialist Mario Soares “is and will always be an example for democracy, Europeanism and social democracy”, stated Catalan Minister for Foreign Affairs, Raül Romeva. After attending Soares’ funeral this Tuesday at Lisbon’s ‘Monasterio de los Jerónimos’ on behalf of the Catalan Government, Romeva praised the Portuguese leader’s ability for “building bridges” between different ideologies. He also emphasised that the former Portuguese President “always understood the singularity of Catalonia’s democratic demands”. Soares, who was the first elected president of Portugal’s restored democracy in 1976, died on Saturday aged 92.