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"There are lines that cannot be crossed", said Mr. García Margallo during a breakfast meeting with journalists: "The government will use all of the means at its disposal to prevent a secessionist referendum. The law, and only the law". Asked if those measures included suspending regional government, the Foreign Minister replied: "It includes everything that needs to be included to prevent it". "Within the framework of the Constitution and the rule of law, everything is possible; but outside of the framework of the Constitution and the rule of law, nothing is possible."
Asked if those measures included suspending regional government, the Foreign Minister replied: "It includes everything that needs to be included to prevent it".
"Within the framework of the Constitution and the rule of law, everything is possible; but outside of the framework of the Constitution and the rule of law, nothing is possible."
outside of the framework of the Constitution and the rule of law, nothing is possible.
In Spain we like to think we're living after 1978, though it may look increasingly to the casual observer that Europe is stuck in a mock version of the 1930s. A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman
1. If an Autonomous Community does not fulfil the obligations imposed upon it by the Constitution or other laws, or acts in a way seriously prejudicing the general interests of Spain, the Government, after lodging a complaint with the President of the Autonomous Community and failing to receive satisfaction therefore, may, following approval granted by an absolute majority of the Senate, take the mea-sures necessary in order to compel the latter forcibly to meet said obligations, or in order to protect the above-mentioned general interests.
155.2. With a view to implementing the measures provided in the foregoing clause, the Government may issue instructions to all the authorities of the Autonomous Communities.
The European Parliament might make nonbinding political declarations, of course. A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman
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