The slovenian Government took over this Friday alongside the Spanish government against the use by the pro-independence Catalan model of separation of Yugoslavia as an example to follow. The prime minister of slovenia, Marjan Sarec, said she doesn’t see « any parallel » between the Catalonia of today and the Slovenia, which in 1991 began his path alone as a new independent State. Sarec showed their disgust for the employment of the president of the Generalitat, Quim Torra, the so-called via slovenian as a political weapon in the Catalan debate. « We have good relations with Spain, and we don’t like that Slovenia will use in this Onwin struggle of half of the population of Catalonia for independence. We are legalists and we respect the internal affairs of Spain, » he declared at a press conference at the end of the European Council held in Brussels.
The leading slovenian has marked distances between the two cases. First, it has reminded that his country obtained independence with the support of 88.5% of the electoral census. And second, has explained that the Constitution of yugoslavia, unlike the Spanish, included in its text the right to self-determination of the six republics that formed the federation of Yugoslavia. « It was a legal framework is completely different. We cannot compare the situation in Slovenia in 1991 with the Catalonia of today », he stressed.
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Slovenia has become the last utopia of the pro-independence Catalan. After you embrace in the past models like Scotland or Quebec, the visit to Ljubljana from Torra last week, and above all, your informal interview with the country’s president, Borut Pahor, has sparked a renewed enthusiasm by the way slovenian independence, as evoked time ago by some of the leading Catalan nationalists despite the fact that it came after a war of ten days that left more than 70 dead and 300 wounded.
Torra outside received by a high official of the slovenian State caused unrest in the Spanish Government, which asked for explanations to Ljubljana. This Friday, president Pedro Sanchez was able to listen to them first-hand at the summit of european leaders. The socialist leader spoke with his slovenian counterpart on the subject in an environment that Spanish sources have been described as « very cordial. » As a result, Sarec has expressed to Sanchez unhappy with the reception tributada to Torra by the president of your country, a meeting that said he does not know and that breaks the official line that follows your Executive in foreign policy. The political slovenian wanted to amend the slip and passed it to Sanchez « full support » of his Government in Spain before the crisis in Catalonia.
Despite its repeated attempts, the pro-independence has not up to now obtained the support of any country of the European Union. During a ceremony in Brussels this Friday, the former Catalan Carles Puigdemont admitted that extreme, but believes that the confrontation with the State has served to put the issue on the table. « The strategy of recognition is working. In the chancelleries have a folder Catalan well-documented that they didn’t have before ».
