Independence: Catalan Lawmaker and Mireia Boya

independence: But we are prepared, and in no case will it be stopped, she said, according to The Japan Times. Catalan President Carles Puigdemont said earlier he would ask the region's parliament to declare independence following the poll, which Spain's government and constitutional court say was illegal and in which only a minority of Catalans voted. Mireia Boya, a Catalan lawmaker from the pro-independence Popular Unity Candidacy CUP party, said on Twitter that a declaration of independence would follow a parliamentary session on Monday to evaluate the results of the Oct. 1 vote to break away. ; We know that there may be disbarments, arrests. This will probably finish once we get all the votes in from abroad at the end of the week and therefore we shall probably act over the weekend or early next week, he told the BBC in remarks published on Wednesday. He said the Madrid government's refusal to negotiate had left Catalonia no other way than to declare independence and he accused it of authoritarianism. In an interview with German newspaper Bild, Puigdemont said he already felt like a president of a free country where millions of people have made an important decision. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.