Similar measures and spains Prime Minister has given. Until monday to say whether or not his declared independence youre up to date with the headlines on aljazeera inside stories next. The man who negotiated the dismantling of apartheid and scrapped south africas Nuclear Program i dont think we needed the bomb but some of my prediction is that they want to use it as a deterrent south africas former president declared talks to aljazeera at this time. Catalonia as leader has signed a symbolic declaration of independence from spain. Is now calling for talks with madrid but the Spanish Government is refusing to negotiate with its worst political crisis in decades now only stalled not resolved whats the way forward for the country this is inside story. Hello again im james space the leaders of spains catalonia region are calling on the world to recognize it as an independent and sovereign state but not just yet they choose day the catalonian president put its independence bit on hold by suspending the declaration he says he wants to try to negotiate with the Spanish Government first but the government in madrid says that spains unity is guaranteed by the constitution and cannot be questioned so with the two sides on such extreme ends of the issue can they find a middle ground well get to our guests in a moment but first jonah hole reports from barcelona. He arrived at the Parliament Building bristling with expectation a heavy Police Presence into the weighty announcement to come but carlos the president of catalonia is Regional Government stopped short of a full declaration of independence. As president its my responsibility to declare that catalonia should become an independent state in the shape of a public. Should become the words greeted with round zing applause in the chamber before the independent state party was put on hold. We asked the parliament to suspend any effects of the declaration of independence so that we can have dialogue and so that we can find the necessary solution we need to lower tensions and show our will and commitment to meet the demands of the catalan people the reaction in madrid came swiftly and this course not kaito your present day that the speech that the catalan president has made today is a speech by a person who doesnt know where he is where hes going or with whom he wants to go the government cannot accept that the catalan referendum be validated because its been suspended by the Constitutional Court. Having consistently refused to talk one centrist politician suggested the time may have come for the government to compromise i think the better way they can solve the problem is with that negotiation some kind as i said of mediation. And resources for us alone or the faithful who gathered to watch the speech on the big screens left deflated but accepted that all was not lost im happy that hes given a lapse of time in order for people to things we really dont understand whats the situation we can say what does it mean what the president just said so assigned declaration but independence deferred which demands speech stipulated no timeline for talks with the. The drama of catalonia as independents that has played out in this Parliament Building for nearly one hundred years isnt over yet jonah hill aljazeera barcelona. The catalans have been pushing for independence for a long time they say they have a distinct culture and language that merits its own state in twenty fifteen Regional Elections or catalan nationalists when a razor thin majority two parties formed a coalition partly based on the promise of holding a referendum within two years thats the vote that was held on october the first nine out of ten voters opted for independence but only about forty percent of the regions population actually came out to vote that was partially because of the violence that marred the election but polls before the vote suggested about sixty percent of catalans want reforms not secession lets bring in our panel to discuss all the issues from barcelona we have alfred bosch is the leader of a pro independents e r c party in the Barcelona City Council from madrid tony roldan the economic spokesman for the sierra dardar narced party translated that means Citizens Party and from nottingham in the u. K. Simon to bow who is an assistant professor in the school of politics and International Relations at the university of nottingham welcome to you all alfred if i can start with you going back to the speech by your president the catalan president what were your thoughts when you heard his words particularly the words he said first today i assume the mandate for catalona catalonia to become an independent state in the form of a republic. I thought he was very clever in the first the first place because he accepted the mandate of the people theres nothing else he could do this was a binding referendum and theres up was a clear yes by ninety percent on the second hand he said he was open to negotiation so he offered the very last chance to the Spanish Government opening the door stretching out his hand and saying we will leave a couple of weeks for talks lets see if this works always take into account that the marquess e is the red line when are we not going to surrender democracy because people voted and we have to heed to the call in the voice of the people can i ask you turney it must have been a different reaction listening to that speech from there in madrid. Quite quite differently i dont know if you can. Do a referendum with a ninety percent of support to the u. S. And without any illegitimacy of any kind without any independent electoral board without any sense of that these controlled everything these biased the ones ones i dont know maybe one side and weve got the that is controlled by the national used these and so i dont think that democracy at all democracy is being within the law and theyre what theyre got their own government decided to yes that it was a move but theres a bit of a show they decided to say first that they were going to declare independence and they said that finally they will not do it now but that we would follow in their r. B. C. Just in a few in a few more days keeping the blackmailing to the going on a minute im going to turn to your calling it blackmailing in the show but in the speech he said it was a gesture of responsibility to encourage dialogue is not a good thing. Yeah well if these but when you come from such an increase and such a threat of your response to really bringing basically the country to bring up of collapse and fragmenting from anything i can tree without any democrat big. Security responsibility now i think hes made a step but after that step he signed the paper with all the brain events but this saying we did all this seventy two m. Piece of the car that im going to. Say that he was going to continue with that. One to negotiate with the government. Needs to be with an open door to negotiating not by your own rules and excluding any other identity that its not independent so. I dont think this is really a constructive move i think that we need to open that bit of dialogue and to manage to take them towards the Legal Framework that we all this plan has got studies with us which is basically the constitution and within the constitution we can do anything and you can vote you can do a Regional Election and vote where everyone can participate where there is no bias. In the organization where there is actually transparency and then everyone can express feely what they want thats democracy not what but i Independence Movement as overnight so i mean can you give us some context how historic is this moment right now or how historic could it be i mean i think this is a very historic moment nothing like this ever happened before in spain certainly not under the current democratic regime and mean there have been past experiences. During the early one nine hundred thirty s. Under the second republic when there were such movements towards instability stablish meant of an independent state and they brought to the country into a civil war and into a military dictatorship so the historical precedent for these events is certainly not a very positive one and certainly not a very encouraging one. And. At the moment i think possibly the strongest challenge to the spanish constitution. And to the spanish political system that has ever been mounted so i think its an important very grave historic moment that being said it looks like. The mocker see and dialogue might win the day so i think well have to see exactly what the repercussions are. I do think that the gesture coming from carlos was a clever one he managed to separate on the one hand what happened with the referendum and what the result of that referendum was from the potentially very serious constitutional implications of the outcome and he has put that on hold in order to create space for a dialogue albeit with. The potential for a threat further down the line but if that brings some kind of deescalation and some kind of mollifying of the attitudes of the spanish spanish Central Government then at least theyll be walking towards each other rather than away from each other alfred in barcelona right i hope maybe you can give us an idea of what the mood was that like there when this announcement was made because you have a Big Coalition of people who are on your saw there are some im sure who like the first bit im declaring independence but didnt like the second bit im suspending it we saw some pictures of some somewhat disappointed people there was there a feeling among some of the meuse mint or even betrayal well you see theres all kinds of reactions and of course theres lots of people who felt that they had to pull their fingers and they kind of. Skate but but its still there i mean the declaration was done was signed and. Most people here understand that we go to give a break to our souls to the people and to possible negotiators and to the International Community weve been experiencing this for seven years now with no possibility to get this down to dialogue with the Spanish Government now that we issued this declaration we have the whole International Community pressing for talks so its a good moment to do it plus the fact you must realize its not easy its not easy to stretch your hand to somebody who was already or ordering the police to beat up your grannies and to beat up elderly people and ordinary citizens who just wanted to vote its not easy at all people who were. Detaining high officials just for organizing a vote but still i think puts the offer and the Catalan Governments offer has been very generous and has been very brave in the sense that we must do this because we must give a chance to talks and to negotiation well the reaction in madrid was a. Cabinet meeting followed by a News Conference from from the Prime Minister this is what he had to say it. Is time when you are now weve held a Cabinet Meeting and weve decided the Catalan Government in must confirm whether or not they have declared independence regardless of whether its going to take effect or not this is a requirement necessary before any other measures can be taken by the government including invoking article one fifty five. Well tony that was the comment that came from Prime Minister roy in a way weve had two announcements coming in it seems both men have slightly pulled their punches would you agree. Yeah well first of all i would say that the announcement of the whole you are providing a bit more and more time for theyve got the nongovernment to come back to a Legal Framework where we can dog and not involving the view of nationalities and basically buckleys a government that basically has done very similar construction of a narrative than what we saw in but actually thats what was weve seen what weve seen by other populist governments and you look i think its also a very brave step in the sense that look im not going to do what any other country. Would do that has a constitution and that the constitution says that this over energy use four of the for the whole of the country not put a region. He made a brave a step of saying look give you. More dime show your comeback you cancel this unilateral movement that will only bring you and not only what we are already seeing which is all these companies and businesses leaving the bidding gets along already more and more than thirty and all the big ones up left and were not going to allow that user that will be laterally without the majority view and this i say that because they talk about us and undermine democracy and we had twenty fifteen an election where their prime dependents movement. Took it as a sort of of. A referendum in the sense that it was let me see that in and they lost they didnt get the majority of the both right and still theyre going ahead with this with the house giving a bit more time i think its good and they should cancel the only that but i will grayson that will not lead anywhere its obvious that it will leave only basically to getting out of the European Union and then stop and we can talk about everything within the law we can govern rules that make us all equal and where all the all the rights are respected not only the rights of the dependents people to get the money well a lot of us journalists have been look. This this is a the official english translation of the spanish constitution and in particular to section one five five about part of the constitution has never been used before it says if a selfgoverning community does not fulfill the obligation is imposed on it by the constitution or acts in a way that seriously prejudicial to the general interests of spain the government way following Senate Approval take all measures necessary to compel the community to meet said obligations simon some of call this the Nuclear Option. Yeah i mean this would be i think the automatic and natural reaction of the spanish Central Government to a unilateral declaration of independence to apply a proclamation of independence which is which is why the. Mariano rajoy for greater clarity he was wanting to find out whether or not they were going to pursue that option and if so he was going to follow by invoking article one five five this article is never been used in the. Spanish state or will told me this so far so its unclear exactly what would what would follow from it but it would probably follow is a suspension of the Catalan Parliament and the Catalan Government possibly with the arrest of the members of the cats and on government who have made this this proclamation and it would be followed either by a fresh elections or by the imposition of direct rule over over the region so this is a very very serious measure to take as it would abrogate parts of the. Principles of autonomy that govern the spanish constitution and would lead to an end to the cats and on. Them of government ok in a moment for it im going to ask you how you would greet the imposition of that article but first tony perhaps you could expand for us on how you think this would work is it possible the this will be invoked how likely is it how long would it take to take back control for example whats your view on that. Let me let me first just make a quick comment on as regards to the last comment made by you by simon i disagree on one thing i think Everything Else was was right the people the catholic suspended this started of autonomy in catalonia are not i mean history is not going to be through these are believed has already been suspended by the cut on government day there is a way to change the relationship with spain that these days within that you know. In that startles of autonomy and you need three you need two thirds of the got to learn government of the other one parliament to change that relationship with spain and peace for Independence Movement is we with the majority but one is already declaring a unilateral declaration of independence so for you to realize how deadly an immigrant any responsible is what what the government is doing having said that the one hundred fifty five has been somehow you call it the Nuclear Option look there are many ways to use that article and its present in every serious consideration it comes actually theyre writing from the german constitution right. And it offers many options one of them would be simply to suspend parliament and go on an election really democratic election where everyone can say everyone going told we all buy this improvement by the same rules and that should be i think the basic use of these i dont think anybody wants to see any escalation of anything i dont see i think its actually. Arsenal im scared to reality to claim that the government or anybody that these are unionists supports violence or anything like that this is at Democratic State and these democratic are safe because we have a constitution where we can all play. There with the rules and we can all express our opinions fred whats your view of the imposition of the section one five five and what could happen because potentially people could be arrested are sympathetic surely you could be arrested. Yeah course weve seen some of my Party Colleagues who have been arrested for much less than that for Something Like preparing a vote so we think that would be total onslaught it would be a huge mistake on the part of mr hoyer weve seen whenever royal has resorted to a crackdown in the last few years in the last few days weve seen what the result has been that has only complicated things further and that has Brought International attention here so its really up to him i mean everyones to walk the way of turkey or of other countries which are constantly attacking their own democracy that says stories we think it will be a huge mistake we favor rather talking negotiation and getting sitting around the table and talk about how in a democratic way devolving the issue to the people because the people have to decide and the bottom line here is that its not up to politicians in obscure office its not up to people shouting in the street its up to the ballot box to people voting consciously and be invited to vote we did that on a talk with the first and thats how things should be done in the ballot box let me just ask because i was i about one particular element of this our friends and that is the fact that you have your own police force in catalonia if this article was invoked they would supposedly report to madrid who would they actually take their orders from in your view. Well lets see are we talking about legal procedures or are we talking about the right of people to decide the pulse every talking about the first thing then perhaps perhaps they they would be submitted to the Spanish Police or to the Spanish Ministry of the interior and were talking about the right of people to decide about their own things and their own future obviously this police force belongs to the catalan people because theyre there for protecting peoples rights protecting the right of people to vote and to express themselves not to attack people when theyre voting ok thats only thats very funny i see what you launch of the phony id here on monday or any rick adelman alfred tony i see you shaking your head repeatedly. Yeah absolutely if you were with us i often say one of the proofs of the incredible centralized country. That we have in spain is precisely that catalonia not only they manage all their Health System all their patients use them. The reasons. They also they also manage their own police we are one of the most federalized states in the world and get along is one of the regions of the world with more out on i mean right i understand that some people for whatever reason this bite that we are in the world of globalization and that we need to use borders right and that includes them and we need to accept believe in a multicultural multilingual. World and they want to build more border there are they want to discriminate between see that is they want to separate and fragments of societies like all nationalists do i understand that but these should be done within this space that we have that we have built which is a constitution you say this referendum is illegal why dont you just give the people of catalonia a legal referendum let them all vote the scotland option thats what they did in scotland and they voted to stay in the u. K. Wouldnt that be the best way to resolve this issue for good. Fundamental differences of this column is an exception its not the rule if you go to germany if you go to either leave you go to france i imagine you might in whether germany would accept an independent referendum from but you know for instance they actually that the Constitutional Court exactly like the course of somebody in spain after by you know demanded a referendum they said not so look at this is our constitution. You can change the constitution and you can change this way out of the article number two that says that this current people of spain are all the people of spain not one of them to themselves the french. The nationalists we could do that but for that you need majorities and the National Government doesnt even have a job if we think about it and in spain honestly i doubt they will get one but thats thats thats a pursuit i think i insist there are ways of being. Very much so donna me and. Over over the last thirty years the money and spend both or whether they have progressed more than any other country broadly in europe at the levels. Everything innovation Human Capital has gone up massively and this is going to get a little framework for coexisting i think breaking all these fracturing as a savior these companies in the vote in two and insisting on on on breaking apart piece by this which when thanks to our guests to tony to simon alford who had to leave us early if you want to see the program again you can watch it at aljazeera dot com to tell us your thoughts about catalonia or suggest a topic for future programs go to our Facebook Page thats facebook dot com forward slash a. J. Inside story you can also reach us using twitter our handle is at a. J. Inside story ill be back here in just under twenty four hours but for now from all the team here by. 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