King Felipe Lays Down the Law in Speech to Catalonia

King Felipe VI told Catalan separatists trying to break up his country that their “unacceptable disloyalty” has no place in any democratic state, as he vowed to keep Spain together.

In a televised address to the nation Tuesday evening, Felipe said the regional government has sown division among its own people with its repeated and deliberate violations of Spanish law, and put the economic well-being and social harmony of the whole country at risk.