{"id":9530,"date":"2017-10-05T15:48:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T13:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/10\/05\/spain-suspends-catalan-parliament-session-in-attempt-to-block-independence\/"},"modified":"2017-10-05T15:48:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T13:48:25","slug":"spain-suspends-catalan-parliament-session-in-attempt-to-block-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=9530","title":{"rendered":"Spain suspends Catalan parliament session in attempt to block independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ruling comes as Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy calls on Catalan president Carles Puigdemont to drop pursuit of unilateral declaration Spain\u2019s constitutional court has suspended a Catalan parliament session planned for Monday in an attempt to block an expected declaration of independence by the Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont.Upholding a challenge by Catalonia\u2019s Socialist party, which opposes secession from Spain, the court ruled that allowing the regional parliament to meet and declare independence would violate the rights of the party\u2019s MPs. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/oct\/05\/spanish-pm-mariano-rajoy-warns-of-greater-harm-from-catalonia-independence-plans\" target=\"_blank\">Spain suspends Catalan parliament session in attempt to block independence<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruling comes as Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy calls on Catalan president Carles Puigdemont to drop pursuit of unilateral declaration Spain\u2019s constitutional court has suspended a Catalan parliament session planned for Monday in an attempt to block an expected declaration of independence by the Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont.Upholding a challenge by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}