Puigdemont, at the prestigious Chatham House in London: ‘Independence is a real thing’

The Catalan government’s wager on independence ‘is a real thing’, said Carles Puigdemont at the talk he gave this evening at the prestigious Chatham House in London. Here, he gave the talk ‘Tracing the path to the independence of Catalonia’, where he explained the political, social and economic arguments that have led to the independentist process, recalling the path from the Constitutional Court sentence against the statute of autonomy to the present day. Puigdemont wanted to be clear in the determination to go ahead with the process and to do so in a negotiated, and not unilateral, manner despite the closed attitude of the Spanish government. ‘The answer will not come from Madrid; it must rather come from Europe, as the Spanish state is failing to appear’, he declared.

Watch the whole video of the talk here: