The Parlament de Catalunya’s official record states that the chamber approved the Law on the Self-determination Referendum, which regulated the holding of a binding referendum on Catalonia’s self-determination.
The record describes a procedure in which the parliamentary bureau accepted the initiative for consideration, and the full chamber added it to the day’s agenda and waived normal stages so that final debate could take place in the same sitting.
Groups disputed the procedure and left the vote
Before the debate, then parliamentary president Carme Forcadell suspended the sitting several times to convene the bureau and the Board of Spokespersons over requests for reconsideration from Ciutadans, the PSC and the PPC. The bureau rejected those requests, according to the official account.
After the debate and votes on amendments, the groups of Ciutadans, the PSC and the PPC left the chamber at the point of the vote on the law and did not vote, the record says.
The law regulated “the holding of a binding self-determination referendum”, according to the parliamentary record.
Earlier declaration linked the issue to the 2012 election
A separate Parlament record concerns a declaration on sovereignty and Catalonia’s right to decide. It says the chamber’s Resolution 742/IX of 27 September 2012 identified the need for Catalonia’s people to determine their collective future freely and democratically through a consultation.
The declaration also referred to the Catalan parliamentary election of 25 November 2012 and stated that it confirmed a public wish to overcome what it described as a political deadlock within Spain.
The official record says the vote on the declaration ended with many MPs and members of the public standing and applauding. PPC MPs left the chamber after voting against it.
Reported by Parlament de Catalunya, El Món.
