Originally Posted by
Lluna Plena
A small summary:
1-After the Franco dictatorship, Catalonia approves its Statute of Autonomy, which grants it devolved regional powers.
2-In 2005 a new Statute of Autonomy is agreed on between the Spanish and Catalangovernments and approved Catalan parliament.
3-A year latter, there is a heavy new modiffication of the "Estatut", but the Popular Party denounces the Catalan Statute in front of the Constitutional Court of Spain, arguing that it infringes the Spanish Constitution.
4-The Spanish Constitutional Court suspends essential articles of the new Statute of Autonomy affecting the recognition of Catalonia as a nation, protections for the Catalan language, regional tax collection powers, and more...
5-As a response of this sentence, there was a massive protest of over amillion people in the streets of Barcelona calling for the right to self-determination. (This was the beginning..)
6-Since then, and increasingly every September 11th (Catalonia's National Day), Omniun Cultural and The Catalan National Assembly (cultural non-governmental organisations), organize a marchall over Catalonia where millions of people clamor for independence.
7-After years of non understanding with Spanish Gouvernement (reject of a new fiscal system, their negatives to each and every proposals about that, and more, and more...), the Catalan government announces that the independence referendum will take place on October 1st, 2017. Then, the Spanish government sends over 10,000 policemen to Catalonia in order to prevent the referendum from taking place. As part of the operation against the referendum, Spanish police arrest 14 public servants and search the Catalan Economy Ministry HQ, among others. In many polling stations some ballot boxes are violently withdrawn. (The way they try to "prevent" the referendum is in many videos recorded all over Catalonia, where the violence from the Spanish police is obvious and shameful...).
Despite all the difficulties, most of Catalans could vote and said "yes" to independence, and in response to the result of the referendum, the Catalan Parliament declares the independence of Catalonia.
8-After that, the Spanish government suspends Catalonia’s home rule, calls early elections, and removes the democratically-elected Catalan government, whose members are summoned to declare before a judge in Madrid the week after.
9-Catalan president Carles Puigdemont and several Catalan ministers go into exile in Belgium and Scotland.
10-Those members are charged with sedition, rebellion, and misuse of public funds and are in pretrial detention (in jail), where they also remain to this day, which is totally unfair and goes against human rights! Some of them have babies at home waiting for them!
In short: the Catalan problem has no turning back!. Is growing ever wider every day.
We, the true Catalans, feel different, think different, have different wishes and feelings, and want to be independent!
VISCACATALUNYA LLIURE!!
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