Spain’s new King Felipe VI has offered a process of “collaboration” to Catalonia – the region whose independence wave has increased stresses with Madrid.
“Sincere and generous collaboration is the best way to fulfill the legitimate aspirations of each person and achieve great collective goals for the common good and the general interest,” he said in a statement on Thursday.
Catalan leaders have scheduled a referendum on independence from Spain on November 9. Felipe highlighted “coexistence” in his statement.
The monarch talked about that he had been making further visits to the region before becoming king “to make the Crown more present in this land, to send messages of respect, understanding and coexistence which… are inseparable from our parliamentary monarchy.”
Spain’s New King Offers Catalan ‘Collaboration’
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