Catalan government takes office promising to be loyal to the Will of the Catalan people. Spanish direct rule is lifted.

Catalan government took office today promising to be loyal to the Will of the Catalan people.
Spanish direct rule is lifted and the putsch has been defeated. Spanish far right, C'anos and Popular Party, defeated in last elections, boycotted the ceremony because they boycott Democracy.131st Catalonia's President Quim Torra said after swearing in his Cabinet that "this government accepts the charge to continue forward with the mandate to form an independent state."

The forming of a Catalan government automatically ended the takeover of the region by central powers started after last October's illegal declaration of independence by the region's parliament.


Torra also repeated his request to open talks with new Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who was sworn in earlier Saturday and has promised to meet with Torra.

Torra said "Pedro Sanchez, let us talk, take risks, both you and I, let us sit down at a table and talk, government to government."

The new government has been ready to set up a banner with the slogan 'Free Political Prisoners and Exiles'.