The mayor of Blanes, the PSC sees Catalunya different from the rest of Spain as "Denmark Maghreb"

© @psc_blanes  The mayor of Blanes, Miquel Lupiañez

The mayor of Blanes (Girona), Miquel Lupiáñez has defended Monday the referendum on the independence of Catalonia announced for October 1. Despite what and he will vote,  as explained, will not put the council at the disposal of the Government to carry out the vote, because it believes it is "illegal" and that the "institution is above personal choices" .

This has been said  told Onda Cero collected by Europa Press , where he explained that in the referendum on October 1 will campaign for the 'no', contrary to the opinion of his party, which rejects the referendum. However, the alderman itself comply with the guidelines of the PSC in the sense that not give municipal spaces to accommodate the polls this vote:  "I have to comply with the law."

Asked if incoherent want to participate in the referendum and reject cede municipal spaces, he has replied: "How I can want three people at a time and not be crazy, as the song said".

He has predicted that his, in favor of the unity of Spain, is the option that is most likely to win and has stated that, if you win and l 'yes' would have to "abide by " the Catalans want to be independent and should "negotiate" separation.

A driver's space questions, Carlos Alsina, Lupiáñez has also defended it Catalunya which vote on their legal status, and not the whole of Spain. To justify its position, mayor of Blanes has ensured that in Catalonia society "moves more by spirits construction, progress, effort, responsibility, commitment".

"Not that the rest of the world does not exist. But here the parameters are basically these. Responsibility, commitment, progress, reward effort , " concluded, and said that in the rest of Spain lived this differently,  " as it can be experienced differently in Denmark than in the Maghreb. " 

Following these statements, which have sparked the uproar of the participants in the gathering, the mayor said that does not seek to compare Catalunya with Denmark and Spain with the Maghreb, but exemplify there in Catalonia  values "are experienced and measured differently "  and he recalled that he was born in the Alpujarra (Granada) and eight years emigrated with his parents.

The PSC asks to rectify

In a message on Twitter picked up by Europa Press, the secretary of the PSC, Oriol Illa has asked Lupiáñez "rectify" for his controversial statements in defense of the referendum. Illa has said, the opinions of Lupiáñez  "do not reflect the thinking of the PSC".

Illa message has been retweeted by the first secretary of the PSC, Miquel Iceta, who has repeatedly insisted that the socialist mayors will not cooperate in any illegal referendum as announced on 1 October.

The PSC sent instructions to their mayors not to participate in the referendum, but some municipalities like Blanes, Girona and Terrassa (Barcelona) have distanced himself from this guideline and have said they will not prevent it.