Carles Puigdemont

Spain's constitution was introduced to cement democracy after Franco's dictatorship, but this government is exploiting its wording as a means to deny us our right to vote. ”

There's a serious and worrying return to the fall of democracy in Spain, and it's not just us who are realising that. ”

Catalan politics emancipated from the Spanish politics on September 27, 2015. Since then, we've acted with a sovereign mentality, political sovereignty. ”

Whoever doesn't want to hear our voice needs to see a political otolaryngologist. ”

I don't believe there will be anyone who will use violence or who will want to provoke violence that will tarnish the irreproachable image of the Catalan independence movement as pacifist. ”

We show each day that we are prepared to act as an independence state... Not just in exceptional moments. ”

Our plan is what the Scottish government had with the U.K. It's an agreement to consult over the independence of Catalonia. And we will not abandon this plan until the end. ”

We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished. ”

There's no alternative to Catalan independence. ”

The independence project in Catalonia is... a peaceful revolution, carried out in suit, shirt, and tie. ”