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having mr hoyer now its turn for mr scientist to demonstrate not only to. the world that things in spain can be done in a different way than from the country. at the party but what's assume for the sake of argument that i was the prime minister of spain and i said to us it was the person i've been thinking about how to come to a settlement and i've been thinking back to the constitutional court suspension of the greed statute of autonomy i've been thinking about what happened in the first three tobel last year not been thinking about the political prisoners knows and and i think it's time to revive the settlement that we would agreed on which had been passed in catalonia in a referendum would that be enough to at least for the. short term be something that you would be interested in discussion or would you say to mr sciences look we have to have a referendum on independence an answer should be done by the spanish government because we won so that then we need in fact we said that there we need at the first of october. and we can negotiate about these refere