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ఈసీపై విశ్వాసం ఉంది: చంద్రబాబు
పోలైన ఓట్లలో ఒక్క శాతం మాత్రమే లెక్కిస్తున్నారని... ఈవీఎంలలో అవకతవకలపై ప్రజలకు విశ్వాసం కల్పించాల్సిన బాధ్యత ఈసీపై ఉందన్నారు ముఖ్యమంత్రి చంద్రబాబు.
ఈసీపై విశ్వాసం ఉంది: చంద్రబాబు
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Published : Feb 4, 2019, 7:54 PM IST
సాంకేతికంగా ముందున్న దేశాలు సైతం పేపర్‌ బ్యాలెట్‌ పద్ధతే పాటిస్తున్నాయని ముఖ్యమంత్రి చంద్రబాబు గుర్తుచేశారు. 23 పార్టీల ప్రతినిధులతో ఎన్నికల సంఘం అధికారులను కలిసిన సీఎం... పోలైన ఓట్లలో ఒక్క శాతం మాత్రమే లెక్కిస్తున్నారని పేర్కొన్నారు. ఈవీఎంలలో అవకతవకలపై ప్రజలకు విశ్వాసం కల్పించాల్సిన బాధ్యత ఈసీపై ఉందన్నారు. ఎన్నికల సంఘం సరైన నిర్ణయం తీసుకుంటుందనే విశ్వాసం ఉందనే అభిప్రాయం వ్యక్తం చేశారు.
ఈసీపై విశ్వాసం ఉంది: చంద్రబాబు
సాంకేతికంగా ముందున్న దేశాలు సైతం పేపర్‌ బ్యాలెట్‌ పద్ధతే పాటిస్తున్నాయని ముఖ్యమంత్రి చంద్రబాబు గుర్తుచేశారు. 23 పార్టీల ప్రతినిధులతో ఎన్నికల సంఘం అధికారులను కలిసిన సీఎం... పోలైన ఓట్లలో ఒక్క శాతం మాత్రమే లెక్కిస్తున్నారని పేర్కొన్నారు. ఈవీఎంలలో అవకతవకలపై ప్రజలకు విశ్వాసం కల్పించాల్సిన బాధ్యత ఈసీపై ఉందన్నారు. ఎన్నికల సంఘం సరైన నిర్ణయం తీసుకుంటుందనే విశ్వాసం ఉందనే అభిప్రాయం వ్యక్తం చేశారు.
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Waterloo – 3 February 2019
1. Former Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont, entering room
2. Puigdemont talking to journalist during interview
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Carles Puigdemont, former president of the regional government of Catalonia:
(Speaking about the 12 Catalan separatists who will stand trial in Spain next week):
"We are all supporting them, helping them because they are suffering a terribly unjust and humiliating situation, and are being used to set an example. The trial is not an act of justice. It will not be an act of justice but rather one of vengeance, and a punishment for future generations."
4. Cutaway Puigdemont
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Carles Puigdemont, former president of the regional government of Catalonia
"What will happen when they are not just three or four points of difference in favour of independence and we clearly are more than 55 percent? Are they going to carry on in the same way? These questions need to be thought through, because that moment will arrive and when it does we will have all the legitimacy to take the decisions that we have already decided in parliament and have ratified in a plebiscite. And before this I think European democracy will have to answer once and for all, because this is a European problem and a democratic problem. Finally if European democracy is so strong as to recognise a self-proclaimed president in Venezuela without passing through an election, one must similarly answer questions about domestic matters. What happens when a democratically elected parliament is dissolved, when a democratically elected president is deposed via a coup, Article 155 (constitutional article allowing the Spanish government to suspend any region's self-government should it disobey the law or attack Spain's general interests)? The European Union needs to answer to this. This is going to happen, this is going to come; and whether they will condemn, absolve or persecute us, the over two million of Catalans who have mentally detached themselves from Spain will continue to do so, and we will need a political solution to this."
6. Cutaway Puigdemont
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Carles Puigdemont, former president of the regional government of Catalonia
"As for Brexit, despite the fact it was a result that I did not like, despite the fact that it's a loss for Europe to see British democracy leave, there is the legitimacy of a referendum and a decision that was taken legitimately on this matter. And regarding this decision there needs to be a complex political reaction, not an easy and childish one. It's the same for the Catalonia case or for the negotiations about the accession of a country into the European Union. How many years have there been negotiations or conversations with Turkey, or with those in the list of nations that the European Union would like to incorporate, Kosovo or Macedonia? It will take years. Of course citizens may suffer the consequences in the process, there are transition costs that come with independence, of course there are costs, like Brexit, this is undeniable. There are also costs to dependence that one must put on the table."
8. Cutaway Puigdemont
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Carles Puigdemont, former president of the regional government of Catalonia
"Catalonia declared its independence. Catalonia is not recognised by any country, Catalonia today is a de facto political subject, much more than it was a year and a half or two years ago. The persistence and will of the people to be independent remains, it's an evolution and one cannot stop the natural evolution of things."
10. Cutaway Puigdemont
11. Exterior of Puigdemont's Belgian residence
12. Pan left road leading to Puigdemont Belgian residence
13. Supporter holding Catalonia flag and talking to another girl in front of Puigdemont Belgian residence
STORYLINE
The leader of Catalonia's failed secession bid in 2017 says that Spain will seek "vengeance" rather than justice when 12 of his separatist allies stand trial next week accused of rebellion and other charges.
Carles Puigdemont, who will follow the trial from self-imposed exile in Belgium, accused EU countries of double standards for recognizing Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido as that country's interim president, while ignoring his attempt to declare independence for Catalonia.
The former Catalan regional president slipped out of Spain after the government removed him from office following the regional parliament's declaration of independence on Oct. 27, 2017.
Twelve other separatists will go on trial in Spain's Supreme Court on Feb. 12 on charges including rebellion and sedition.
"We are all supporting them, helping them because they are suffering a terribly unjust and humiliating situation and being used to set an example," Puigdemont said in the interview in the Belgian town of Waterloo, south of Brussels.
The trial, he said, "will not be an act of justice but rather one of vengeance."
Spanish Supreme Court President Carlos Lesmes has dismissed such claims, insisting the trial will follow the "highest standards set by the European Union."
The trial will be broadcast on TV from Madrid. A request by defense lawyers to have Puigdemont testify via video conference was refused.
Instead, he will watch the proceedings from his home in Waterloo, a two-story brick house bordered by trimmed hedges.
Puigdemont said that what he expects will be a guilty verdict for his fellow separatists, including members of his defunct Cabinet, would only provide momentum to the separatist movement, which he predicted would gain the support of a clear majority of Catalans.
"That moment will arrive and when it does we will have all the legitimacy to take the decisions that we have already decided in parliament and have ratified in a plebiscite," he said, adding that the declaration of independence was still valid.
The "yes" vote won in a landslide in the October 2017 referendum, during which hundreds of people were injured in a police crackdown.
But those in favor of remaining with Spain largely stayed home, and Spain's central government declared the vote illegal and unconstitutional.
Subsequent regional elections indicated that Catalonia is evenly split between those in favor and those against independence.
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