Catalan Leader Asks For Mandate To Declare Independence, Suspends Consequences Of Vote “For Weeks”

Following a brief intro, thanking supporters, proclaiming this a ‘Spain’ issue, and outlining the referdmum’s success, Puigdemont turned more angry, slamming the “humiliation, aggression, and Catalanophobia” of Madrid, suggesting that Spaniards are victims of propaganda, and proclaiming that “many Catalans believe that the only way to guarantee survival is for Catalonia to become a State.”
“We’re not crazy, delinquents or doing a coup,” Puigdemont says.
Then he paused…saying Catalonia has won the right to independence.
“I assume my mandate to convert Catalonia in an independent State.”
And then ads that he calls for weeks of dialog, suspending the independence referendum result.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Oct 10, 2017.