Arenys de Munt declares itself free and sovereign

On September 13, exactly three years after the beginning, in the same municipality, of the popular consultation process on the independence of Catalonia, the people of Arenys de Munt had another motive of celebration: their elected representatives, headed by its mayor, Mr. Josep Manel Ximenis, approved with the votes of different political groupings the declaration which makes this municipality a free and sovereign Catalan municipality.

Mr. Josep Manel Ximenis was 3 years ago, along with a group of anonymous citizens of civil society, the founder of what would become the most important social process for the Independence of Catalonia in our recent history: the Consultation on Independence(2009-2011). Now that he’s the mayor of the municipality, and gathering the spirit and will of its people, he has decided to bring his municipality to declare itself free and sovereign, using an immaculate democratic procedure. Arenys de Munt declares itself free of allegiance to the crown of Spain.

After the Arenys de Munt Council Plenum approved on 13 September the Declaration of Independence of the Principality of Catalonia and declared Arenys de Munt a free and sovereign Catalan territory, the mayor, as requested at the end of the Declaration, has sent a letter to Mr. Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament, and Mr. José Manuel Durão Barroso, President of the European Commission, asking them for an audience.

This road, which started this month, has been made known to social entities like Assemblea Nacional de Catalunya (National Assembly of Catalonia), Òmnium Cultural and municipalist associations.

This sovereign process has the support of the European Partnership for Independence (EPI), an alliance formed by the social movements of the most significant territories struggling to exercise the universal right of self-determination in the European Union, and whose founders are Flanders, Scotland, the Basque Country and Catalonia, with Ms. Anna Arqué as the spokeswoman for Catalonia.

Source: EPI Centres