Catalonia’s government has denounced as politically motivated, charges of civil disobedience being brought against their acting regional president.<br /><br /> Artur Mas who won election success on Sunday with his separatist campaign is now being accused of holding an allegedly illegal independence referendum last year.<br /><br /> Josep Rull, CDC (Democratic Convergence of Catalonia) said the move would backfire:<br /><br /> “Efforts are underway to win in the courts what they were not able to win at the ballot box. Charging the Catalonian president turns him into a martyr known both nationally and internationally.”<br /><br /> The pro-unity opposition, Ciudadanos Party leader, <br />Albert Rivera said:<br /><br /> “We are not going to interfere in the Constitutional State. If somebody is being brought to be legally accountable I think it is because there is something behind it.”<br /><br /> Although the full weight of Span’s constitutional law is being leveled against Mas, political analysts such Jordi Matas, Professor in Political Science for t
