In a letter on Monday, the Catalan president failed to answer Rajoy’s question, asking instead for an urgent meeting “before the situation deteriorates still further”. “My government’s priority is to wholeheartedly pursue the path of dialogue,” wrote Puigdemont. Profile Carles Puigdemont Show Hide In a little over a decade, Carles Puigdemont has gone from obscurity to becoming the Spanish government’s bête noire and the pubic face of the Catalan independence movement. Meanwhile, the Catalan national assembly, a powerful pro-independence civil society group, has also said that it no longer makes sense “to keep the suspension of the independence declaration”. According to the Catalan government, 770,000 votes were lost after Spanish police stepped in to try to halt the vote.

Source: The Guardian October 16, 2017 08:25 UTC