The Spanish Prime Minister has fired the President of the Government of Catalonia. He has also removed all of Catalonia's democratically elected officials. The follows from the disruption of a referendum on the Independence of Catalonia from Spain by Spanish Police. In his speech Mr. Rajoy hypocritically said

The Catalonia Government attempted a national vote on Independence from Spain. The referendum was declared illegal by the Spanish authorities. The Spanish police force was used by the Spanish government to prevent the referendum taking place. Rather than using the military the Spanish government sent in their police force to prevent a democratic vote in military protective armour. Scene unfolded between the Spanish police and the Citizen of the region who tried to defy Spanish law attempting to take their democratic vote.