Catalan President Artur Mas pledged to create the institutions needed
for an independent state next year as he prepares for a referendum on
secession from Spain.
Catalonia's government will create a tax agency and a public bank
while transforming the regional police corps into a full force as part
of preparations for the referendum, which he has pledged to be ready
to hold as early as 2014. It will also draw up plans for social
security, energy and justice, Mas told the regional parliament, which
is set to swear him in for a second term tomorrow.
"The government will work to define and develop the structures of
state for the new scenario," Mas told the legislature in Barcelona
today. "Catalonia must make its own national transition."
Mas, who won a regional election on Nov. 25 without clinching a
majority for his Convergencia i Unio party, will govern with the
support of the separatist lawmakers of Catalan Republic Left. His
plans set him up for a clash with the central government of Spanish
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, which says any referendum would be
illegal and has pledged to take legal measures to prevent a plebiscite
being called.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-12-20/catalonia-to-create-institutions-for-independence-before-2014
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