I could not disobey the will of the Catalan parliament.

As president, I have the right to call a referendum based on a law that the Catalan parliament has approved.

In a mature democracy, what is legal is decided by parliament... Our process is legitimised by parliament and by the ballot box.

No Catalan citizen and no Catalan company will leave the E.U. That is evident, and nobody can dispute it.

I don't want to go to prison... but there is nothing they can do to me that will make me stop this referendum.

If you're hungry, you know that you want to eat. You don't know what's on the menu - perhaps it's not your favorite dish - but you will eat.