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" Spain's constitution was introduced to cement democracy after Franco's dictatorship, but this government is exploiting its wording as a means to deny us our right to vote. "

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" How can we later criticise other countries outside the European Union for adopting such measures to repress opponents when we are tolerating this inside the European Union with European citizens? Like me - I'm a European citizen. "

Carles Puigdemont

Citizen

How

Inside

" To me, the European Union says there is a charter that protects you; you have fundamental rights, and they are staying silent when they are violating my fundamental rights. "

Carles Puigdemont

Silent

Rights

" I don't want to go to prison... but there is nothing they can do to me that will make me stop this referendum. "

Carles Puigdemont

Nothing

Prison

" The alternative to independence is decline, because the relationship with the Spanish state is not good; everyone knows that. "

" All we want is to carry out the greatest expression of a free democracy and vote on Catalonia's future. This is not about independence: it is about fundamental civil rights and the universal right of self-determination. "

" Spain's parties must steel themselves to do the sensible thing and treat the Catalonia issue with the seriousness it deserves. "

" If Madrid does not want an accord, and the majority of Catalans want an independent state, how can you avoid that? "

" European values, civil rights, freedom of speech, freedom of informatio,n and freedom of assembly are being violated by Spain's central government. "

" There's no alternative to Catalan independence. "

Carles Puigdemont

Alternative

Independence

" He who calls a person a fascist for opposing independence is not only wrong but putting themselves on the same level as those who call us Nazis for wanting independence. "

Carles Puigdemont

Person

Wrong

" The welfare of Catalonia is only possible outside of Spain. "

" The return to normality is a defeat for the terrorists. "

" There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent. "

" The independence project in Catalonia is... a peaceful revolution, carried out in suit, shirt, and tie. "

" I could not disobey the will of the Catalan parliament. "

" They are very brave when they talk about other countries where they have no competencies, but where are they when we citizens need them? Is Europe's solution to Catalans to turn its back? "

" Whoever doesn't want to hear our voice needs to see a political otolaryngologist. "

" It is crucial that there is a government in Madrid secure enough to engage with Catalonia politically rather than continue the denial and legal obstructionism of the Rajoy years. "

" If you're hungry, you know that you want to eat. You don't know what's on the menu - perhaps it's not your favorite dish - but you will eat. "

" No Catalan citizen and no Catalan company will leave the E.U. That is evident, and nobody can dispute it. "

" There's a serious and worrying return to the fall of democracy in Spain, and it's not just us who are realising that. "

Carles Puigdemont

Serious

Fall

" In 2010, the Spanish constitutional court annulled a large part of the Catalan statute of autonomy negotiated between Catalonia and the previous prime minister, Jose Luis Zapatero. This demolished one of the main agreements achieved during the Spanish transition to democracy - Catalonia's recovery of self-governance. "

" We're seeing a reaction - and people taking to the streets with pots and pans - in areas where the independence movement isn't supposed to exist. People have to choose between one model and another. Everyone in Catalonia has realised that not taking part means ratifying the politics of repression of the Spanish government. "

" Catalan citizens are peaceful, European, and open-minded. We want to contribute to better international and European governance. "