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Catalunha – Declaração de Independência
Declaração Unilateral de Independência e Proclamação da República da Catalunha – Propostas aprovadas no Parlamento da Catalunha em 27.10.2017 (70 votos a favor, 10 contra, 2 abstenções – num total de 135 deputados, dos quais os restantes se ausentaram da sala na altura da votação, realizada por voto secreto).
Apenas 45 minutos depois, era aprovada no Senado, em Madrid – por 214 votos a favor, 47 contra e 1 abstenção – a aplicação do artigo 155.º da Constituição espanhola, que suspende a autonomia da Catalunha, o que pressupõe automaticamente o cessar de funções do Governo Autonómico (“Generalitat”), cujas competências são assumidas pelo Governo central de Espanha, assim como a restrição dos poderes do Parlamento Catalão, para além da convocação de novas eleições na Região, agendadas para o próximo dia 21 de Dezembro:
Artículo 155
1. Si una Comunidad Autónoma no cumpliere las obligaciones que la Constitución u otras leyes le impongan, o actuare de forma que atente gravemente al interés general de España, el Gobierno, previo requerimiento al Presidente de la Comunidad Autónoma y, en el caso de no ser atendido, con la aprobación por mayoría absoluta del Senado, podrá adoptar las medidas necesarias para obligar a aquélla al cumplimiento forzoso de dichas obligaciones o para la protección del mencionado interés general.
2. Para la ejecución de las medidas previstas en el apartado anterior, el Gobierno podrá dar instrucciones a todas las autoridades de las Comunidades Autónomas.
“Security Council Backs António Guterres to Be Next U.N. Secretary General”
UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations Security Council reached a surprisingly swift consensus Wednesday on its choice for the next secretary general of the United Nations: António Guterres, a former prime minister of Portugal.
Mr. Guterres, who ran the United Nations refugee agency for 10 years, had been the clear front-runner, and was apparently the unanimous choice of the otherwise deeply divided Security Council.
“We have a clear favorite and his name is António Guterres,” said Vitaly I. Churkin, the Russian ambassador to the United Nations who is presiding over the Security Council this month.
Mr. Churkin made the announcement outside the Council chamber Wednesday, flanked by his American counterpart, Samantha Power, and the other ambassadors representing the 15 countries on the Council.
Mr. Guterres, who will face a formal Council vote on Thursday morning, will have his name submitted to the 193-member General Assembly for approval. If elected, he will succeed the current secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, whose second five-year term expires at the end of this year. He would preside over the United Nations at a time when it has faltered in carrying out its chief mandate — to stop the scourge of war — and confronts an ever-widening rift between Russia and the West.
“António Guterres to be next UN secretary general”
Security council agrees, in surprisingly quick decision, that former Portuguese PM will succeed Ban Ki-moon at start of 2017
António Guterres, the former Portuguese prime minister, will be the next UN secretary general, after the security council agreed he should replace Ban Ki-moon at the beginning of next year.
In a rare show of unity, all 15 ambassadors from the security council emerged from the sixth in a series of straw polls to announce that they had agreed on Guterres, who was UN high commissioner for refugees for a decade, and that they would confirm the choice in a formal vote on Thursday.
“Today after our sixth straw poll we have a clear favourite and his name is António Guterres,” the Russian UN ambassador, Vitaly Churkin, told reporters with his 14 council colleagues standing behind him.
“We have decided to go to a formal vote tomorrow morning at 10 o’clock, and we hope it can be done by acclamation.”
The announcement came as a surprise. Many observers had expected the selection process to go on late into October as the major powers struggled to promote their favourite candidates. And some thought that Russia, currently holding the presidency of the security council, would block Guterres, as Moscow had said it wanted an eastern European in the top UN job.
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