The CUP (Popular Unity Candidacy) has today called for "mass civil disobedience" in Catalonia in the face of the application by the Spanish government of article 155 of the Constitution, which it considers "the greatest aggression against the civil, individual and collective rights of the Catalan people since the Franco dictatorship".

In a statement headed, "Against the aggression of 155, Republic, self-organisation, self-defense, resistance from municipalism and internationalism", the CUP indicates that these areas "are the spearheads of this non-violent struggle to reject the application of article 155 of the Spanish Constitution and to achieve the collective freedom".

"Crucial week"

The anti-system party indicates that it is "a crucial week for the future of Catalonia" and accuses "the government of Rajoy, with the support of Ciudadanos (Citizens), of the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party) and [the royal house] of Bourbon , of eliminating self-government and of intervening in the main institutions, among them the Catalan Parliament", which it qualifies as "the greateast aggression to the Catalan people since the Franco dictatorship".

"An aggression" - the statement continues - "directed against the independence majority, but also against the rest of the non-independence citizenship" and that it "will find a response in the form of mass civil disobedience on the part of the citizens".

The CUP announces that, in this sense, during this week "concrete initiatives will be presented in these fields".

On the other hand, the CUP-CC (Popular Unity Candidacy - Constituent Call) insists that "we do not share the strategy of the decisions of the Spanish government" and considers that "the declaration of the Republic is fully legitimate by the results of the referendum of 1st October and, as we have already said on multiple occasions, we are committed to making the proclamation in Parliament as soon as possible".