The leader of Spain's Popular Party (PP), Pablo Casado, has let loose his anti-Catalan rhetoric in all its full glory today in the city of Ceuta, when he told a local audience about the measures he would apply against the Catalan government if he became prime minister. The hard-core, reactionary image he presented was similar to an address he previously gave to party faithful in Spain's other North African enclave, Melilla.
"In the first cabinet meeting after forming a government," began Casado, "we'll apply article 155, we'll depose the Catalan government and appoint a new one, we'll take control of the prisons so that we no longer see humiliating homages [to the pro-independence leaders] such as those at New Year at the gates of Lledoners prison."
"We'll take control of the Mossos d'Esquadra police to bring order to the streets, we'll take control of spending so that there is no misuse of the money of all Spaniards on the independence movement's agenda of rupture, and above all, we'll impose order in education and in the public media, which are producing the propaganda and indoctrination which intend, in the medium term, to put an end to the history of Spain."
"The Popular Party will do this," concluded the PP leader to the applause of his audience, "with a 155 in Catalonia that will be immediate, broad and without any time limit."
"Depondremos al Gobierno de la Generalitat y nombraremos uno nuevo, tomaremos el control de los Mossos para poner orden en las calles, pondremos orden en la educación y en los medios de comunicación". Casado promete un 155 "inmediato, amplio y sin limite de tiempo" en Cataluña. pic.twitter.com/e1YCktk0N6
— Kasper Juul (@KasperJuul_0) 3 de gener de 2019