{"id":261226,"date":"2017-09-15T16:26:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T20:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=261226"},"modified":"2020-12-17T11:45:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T16:45:35","slug":"catalonia-referendum-spanish-state-poised-to-seize-catalan-finances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fp\/catalonia-referendum-spanish-state-poised-to-seize-catalan-finances\/","title":{"rendered":"Catalonia referendum: Spanish state poised to seize Catalan finances"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Viva independent Catalunya!<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Spanish government has given the regional government in Catalonia 48 hours to abandon &#8220;illegal&#8221; referendum plans or lose budgetary powers.<\/p>\n<p>Finance Minister Crist\u00f3bal Montoro said a mechanism had been approved for the state to take control of the autonomous region&#8217;s finances.<\/p>\n<p>Madrid is seeking to stop the Catalan government spending public money on its planned independence referendum.<\/p>\n<p>The Catalans are defying a court order to suspend the 1 October vote.<\/p>\n<p>Catalan President Carles Puigdemont launched his campaign for a &#8220;Yes&#8221; vote on Thursday night in the town of Tarragona, telling a rally at a former bullring: &#8220;Vote, and in so doing bring light to darkness that has lasted for too many years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The crowd shouted back, &#8220;Independence&#8221;, &#8220;We will vote&#8221; and &#8220;We&#8217;re not afraid&#8221;, AFP news agency reports.<\/p>\n<p>Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy was taking the unionist cause directly to Barcelona on Friday, addressing a meeting of his Popular Party in the Catalan capital.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-41284764\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-41284764<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Viva independent Catalunya! &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":287337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}