Calviño rejects independence unilateralism: We must leave all those avenues that do not fit into the Constitution

MADRID, 18 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The first vice president and acting minister of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, Nadia Calviño, has defended that the Government is clear that the Constitution must be respected and, therefore, paths that do not fit into it must be abandoned, in reference to independence unilateralism.

"From the Government of Spain we have been very clear: there must be scrupulous respect for the Constitution and abandon all those ideas or ways that do not fit within the Constitution," he expressed this Monday in an interview in La Sexta, reported by Europe. Press.

This is how he referred to the question of whether the former Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont, should renounce unilateralism to receive some type of judicial compensation for his accusation in the 'procés'. The pro-independence leader who fled in Belgium warned the Government this Sunday that the one who sets the conditions for the investiture is the one who gives his support and not the one who asks for it, after Vice President Yolanda Díaz affirmed that unilaterality does not fit in an amnesty agreement .

Calviño has stressed that the Catalan and Spanish citizens have also made it "very clear" that they do not want the path of tension and confrontation, but rather prefer that of dialogue and coexistence, which Sánchez has recovered as president, as he has highlighted.

"What a Government led by President Sánchez is going to do is continue working in the direction of dialogue, of harmony, but of course absolutely respecting the Constitution. That is what we have done" in the last five years, he claimed.

That said, the vice president has charged against the opposition for "trying to recover an atmosphere of tension" that would set back "the Spain of 2017", as well as for generating "noise" before the investiture debate of the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo , which will be held next week.

For Calviño, what should be done is to debate Feijóo's proposals for Spain "instead of opening debates that are not on the table at this moment."