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The sources consulted by ECD assure that in January, the prosecutor investigating the 'Pallerols case' on the subsidies that Unió allegedly received irregularly from the CiU Government between 1994 and 1999 "had planned to call current officials of the Generalitat and leaders of Convergencia i Unió”. Those summons “were going to wear out Artur Mas a lot, who has now chosen to bring forward the elections and make the holding of that hearing in the courts coincide with the beginning of the new legislature and his strengthened party.” The Budgets and the Consultation Law, the other reasons for Mas In addition to avoiding the two investigative commissions and the trial for the 'Pallerols case', the electoral advance will also allow Artur Mas to leave pending the approval of two transcendental laws for the next legislature : the Budgets and the Consultations. In the case of the Budgets , "Mas will delay its approval until after the elections , so it can then sell the necessary cuts as an obligation imposed by the Spanish State." Regarding the Consultation Law , which will allow independence referendums to be held in Catalonia, “Artur Mas will use it as one of his strong campaign points , defending the idea that if CiU achieves a larger majority than the one it currently has in the Parliament " Neither Rajoy nor anyone else will be able to prevent this type of consultation from being held in the region .
As El Confidencial Digital has learned from sources directly related to the Executive, the Government of Mariano Rajoy fears that on October 12 there could also be a popular whistle against the president during the military parade, by some Special Database sectors of spectators, who intend to express their discomfort with the cuts and the harsh economic measures approved, including salary cuts for members of the Armed Forces. Keep the public away As these sources point out, and others in the Ministry of Defense confirm , the precautions taken by the Socialist Government will be repeated to avoid, or at least minimize as much as possible, any gesture of protest. One of them is the location of the authorities' stands with respect to the public, which will be located about 200 meters away, with hardly any visual access to the epicenter of the celebration, located in the Plaza de Neptuno. The whistles, at that distance, are slightly audible from the main stand, but are not picked up by the microphones of the televisions and radios located in front of the authorities. Furthermore, in the most solemn moments of the event, such as the Tribute to the Fallen , the parade narrator will repeat over the loudspeaker a message similar to last year's: “ We ask the attending public to show the pride, admiration, silence and respect that this represents.
moment" Neptune's 'shield' Tired of being, year after year, the center of attention of the military parade on October 12, Rodríguez Zapatero and Carme Chacón developed a plan to try to reduce the impact of the whistles , after two years -2009 and 2010- in which the Members of the Government were received and dismissed with boos from the public present at the event. The decision was made after the whistle in 2010, the most serious, as it occurred during the most emotional and solemn moment of the event: the tribute to the Fallen . The unfortunate episode bothered the military commanders, and the political power decided to find a solution to avoid these ' boycotts' of the Columbus Day events . In 2011 the whistles were repeated again, but the Presidency and Defense plan gave results . The layout of the authorities' tribune - in the sheltered Plaza de Neptuno - forced the public to be placed about two hundred meters away, enough to prevent them from seeing the arrival of the members of the Government and the president up close, and to cushion the noise. sound of whistles . In fact, the political authorities who attended the event reached Neptuno by car without passing through the areas where the spectators were . Avoiding Paseo de la Castellana, the official vehicles accessed the grandstand from Felipe IV Street.