Statute referendum in Catalonia: PP angered over PSC pre-campaign message

The Partido Popular (PP) has said that it will be taking the Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya (PSC) to court over a pre-statute referendum campaign theme they are using - ‘El PP utilizará tu no contra Cataluña’ (the PP will use your no against Catalonia) - because they feel it is ‘converting the PP into an enemy of Catalonia.’

The PP’s general secretary Ángel Acebes said that the theme selected by the PSC demonstrated ‘the real absence of ideas and convictions of the PSC and the Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE)’, the responsibility of which lies at the door of the Spanish prime minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.

Acebes explained in statements made on Antena3 TV that the advertising propaganda used by the PSC for the statute referendum vote is ‘intolerable and malicious’.

PSC party secretary José Zaragoza stated in response that his party ‘had fired up some days ago an explanatory campaign’ which addressed the referendum. He added that the objective of the pre-campaign was to ‘provide people with the context of the debate,’ and of alerting to them of what ‘is at stake in the referendum,’ highlighting in particular ‘the consequences of a ‘no’ vote’.

‘Catalonia has had to contend with two years of PP insults and it will be returned to them in only one day,’ 18 June, Zaragoza stated.

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