The Association of Municipalities for Independence (AMI) has agreed to turn the Catalan Parliament's resolution calling for the abolition of the Spanish monarchy into a motion for town councils to give their support for the proposal. This was announced by AMI's president, Josep Maria Cervera, after this Friday's executive committee meeting in Sant Celoni.
The motion's objective is to "denounce the anti-democratic activity of this anachronistic monarchy and the need to abolish it", Cervera said.
The text of the motion will adapt the bill passed on 11th October in the Catalan chamber. That bill also censured king Felipe for his stance on and involvement in the Catalan conflict. The Spanish government has already announced its intention to take the bill to the Constitutional Court.
Cervera also said they'll carry out a joint meeting with the Catalan Association of Municipalities (ACM) to demonstrate "unity" to realise the republic, the Catalan news agency ACN reports.
A difficult year
AMI's president recognised that the last year has been very difficult for the organisation and its members, describing the ongoing "legal pounding" they've had to face. "This week we were meant to have the first verdicts from the High Court of Justice of Catalonia on AMI's quotas", he noted, adding they've heard nothing yet. What they do know, however, is that various mayors, especially from Baix Llobregat county and including the mayor of Montgat, have been summoned to testify over last year's referendum.
He also expressed regret that their request for the investigations into the mayors who supported the referendum to be shelved has already received its first negative response from a public prosecutor in Palafrugell. "It's a demonstration of the arbitrary way in which Spanish justice works," he said.
He said that, given everything, they are not discounting the option of having to "go into exile" in French Catalonia or Andorra at some point, "as some people who had defended freedom have had to do".
Buch and Lloveras
Cervera has said that the executives of both the AMI and the ACM will accompany his predecessor, Neus Lloveras, and current Catalan interior minister Miquel Buch to testify to the High Court of Justice of Catalonia. "They headed our organisations and everything they did was with our full complicity, for that reason we'll always stand by them," he said.