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Spain's Minister of Education and government spokesman, Íñigo Méndez de Vigo, announced yesterday at a press conference that the Spanish government will condition the payment of the Autonomous Liquidity Fund (FLA) to the fact that the Catalan government does not spend "even a euro" on the independence referendum planned for 1st October. It did not take long for reactions from the Catalan and international political landscape, and on Saturday morning the President of the Catalan government, Carles Puigdemont, made his own views public.

Puigdemont explained through a series of 6 tweets that asked the same question, whether the minister will return the Catalans' public funds. Tweet 1 asked: "Will the minister reimburse Catalans' public funds spent on the Operation Catalonia dirty war and paying for fake incriminating reports?" Tweet 2 asked the same question to "reimburse Catalans' public funds spent on the Madrid toll highways bailout." Tweet 3 addressed the Catalans' public funds spent on bailing out the banks (€60bn), that "we will never see again". Tweet 4 asked for the return of Catalans' public funds spent "to indemnify the private investors for the failed Castor project"; and Tweet 5 for the "funds which were not invested in infrastructures, even though they were budgeted". The final Tweet asked: "Will the minister reimburse Catalans' public funds which the government has lent us back to cover insufficient central government's redistribution?"