Spanish PM asks senate for powers to dismiss Catalonia's president

Mariano Rajoy’s government prepares to remove cabinet and assume control of region in effort to end independence crisis

Spain’s prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, has asked the Spanish senate for authorisation to fire the Catalan president and his cabinet as Madrid prepares to assume control of the region to put an end to the independence crisis.

Addressing the senate on Friday morning, Rajoy said Carles Puigdemont’s decision to flout the Spanish constitution by holding a unilateral independence referendum earlier this month had forced the central government to take the unprecedented step of imposing direct rule.

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from The Guardian http://ift.tt/2hduVII