Resist or Obey Madrid’s Rule? Catalonia Civil Servants Must Decide

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Resist or Obey Madrid’s Rule? Catalonia Civil Servants Must Decide
Mr. Puigdemont added that The government we recognize is the elected Catalan government.
Colomines said that Meritxell is my minister,
Describing the dismissal of the Catalan government as a "coup d’état," Mr. Font said the union will not recognize officials "who haven’t been appointed by the democratically elected Catalan government." The journalists of TV3, the Catalan public television channel, "will not accept any instruction or order
that attempts to restrict their freedom of work," said the channel’s general manager, Vicent Sanchis Llàcer.
"It’s not a real thing." As the Spanish government tries to restore constitutional order in Catalonia, after the Catalan Parliament’s declaration of independence on Friday, a question is whether the Catalan administration — its ministers, lawmakers, judges, teachers, policemen
and civil servants — will fall in line on Monday and take their orders from the new caretaker administration installed on Friday by Madrid.
Catalonia said that we have part of the country that really believes
that ‘we are free, we have an independent republic’, and for this part of the country, President Puigdemont and his government are the legitimate government
that As Puigdemont said in Saturday’s speech, we are going to keep working,