Spain's chief prosecutor said Monday his office is seeking rebellion charges against the now-deposed leaders of Catalonia following last week's declaration of independence by the region's parliament.
Jose Manuel Maza said in a statement that prosecutors had filed a request at the National Court for the charges Comprar Nike Air Max 95 , which also include sedition and embezzlement.
A court now has to decide whether to accept the charges against the leaders, who were dismissed by the Madrid government on Friday.
The crime of rebellion is punishable in Spain by up to 30 years in prison.
The dispute over Catalan leaders' independence drive has dragged Spain into its deepest political crisis in decades.
Catalonia's now-dismissed regional president Carles Puigdemont said the result of an outlawed independence referendum on October 1 gave the region a mandate to declare independence.
Madrid and the Spanish courts said the referendum was illegal and that a unilateral independence declaration would violate the constitution.
Maza said in a ruling that the filing targeted "the principal political leaders of the Catalonia government."
It alleged that the leaders "with their decisions and deeds over the past two years have caused an institutional crisis that led to the unilateral declaration of independence carried out on October 27 with total contempt for our constitution."
The party of Puigdemont will run in a December regional election called by Spain's government in response to a declaration of independence by Catalan leaders, spokesperson Marta Pascal said Monday. "We will go to the polls on [December] 21. We will go with conviction and with a commitment to letting the Catalan people express themselves," Marta said.
Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said Friday he had dissolved the Catalan parliament and called a snap vote for the region under sweeping powers approved by the Senate to stop the secessionist movement.
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TEHRAN, May 21 (Xinhua) -- An Iranian army general on Sunday refuted the comments by the U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson for urging a policy shift in Tehran's conduct during President Hassan Rouhani's second term Comprar Nike Air Max 180 , Tasnim news agency reported.
The only way to peace in the Middle East is a pull-out of the U.S. forces from the region, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Brig. Gen. Massoud Jazayeri said.
During his Saudi Arabia visit, Tillerson said Saturday that he hopes the re-election of Rouhani would prompt changes to Tehran's approach to ""terrorism and human rights.""
Tillerson urged Iran's re-elected president to dismantle the alleged ""network of terrorism"" and to end ballistic missile tests.
He made the remarks at a news conference with Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir in Riyadh.
In the reaction, Jazayeri urged the United States for what he called an end to the ""aggressive and terrorist operations against independent states"" by the assistance of ""reactionary regimes"" in the region.
Besides Comprar Nike Air VaporMax CS , no factor could hinder Iran's defense programs, he said, describing the boost of Iran's missile defense systems as a top priority for the Islamic republic.
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BEIJING, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) -- China's fiscal revenue rose 6.1 percent year on year to 910.9 billion yuan (149.33 billion U.S. dollars) in August, slowing from the 6.9-percent rise seen in July, the Ministry of Finance said on Saturday.
Central government revenue reached 445.4 billion yuan Comprar Nike Air VaporMax Flyknit , up 5.5 percent year on year, while local government revenue stood at 465.5 billion yuan, up 6.6 percent from the same period last year.
The pace of fiscal spending also slowed. In August, national fiscal expenditures went up 6.2 percent to 1.02 trillion yuan Comprar Nike Air VaporMax , retreating from the 9.6-percent surge in July.
The monthly growth rate of China's fiscal revenue is relatively low, a result of more tax cuts under a program to replace business tax with value-added tax (VAT) and the slow growth of taxes on imports and exports, said a statement on the ministry's website.
In the first eight months, fiscal revenue went up 8.3 percent to 9.64 trillion yuan Comprar Nike Air Max 96 , according to the ministry.
In the January-August period, fiscal revenue collected by the central government fell short of the budgeted full-year growth rate of 7 percent, expanding 6 percent year on year to 4.51 trillion yuan, while revenue for local government increased 10.4 percent to 5.13 trillion yuan.
"In the coming months Comprar Nike Air Max 270 , it will be relatively difficult for central fiscal revenue to grow," the ministry said in the statement, citing more tax cuts under the program to replace business tax with VAT and a higher comparison base last year.
The weak fiscal revenue growth could create pressure for China's policymakers to stabilize the economy, which grew 7.4 percent year on year in the first half Comprar Nike Air Max 2018 , the highest of all major economies but below the full-year target of 7.5 percent.
China has vowed to revamp its fiscal and tax system as part of efforts to jump-start a new round of across-the-board reforms in the country.
Its present fiscal system, which leaves too many spending obligations to regional governments without giving them an adequate share of fiscal revenues, is partl. |
