Catalonia

Catalonia Parliament Votes Independence, Spain Vows To Crush ‘Rebellion’

It’s Official. The Catalan Parliament has just voted for independence.
70 ‘Yes’ (needed 68), 10 ‘No’, 2 blank.
As AP reports, Catalan separatist lawmakers passed a motion to establish a new republic independent of Spain, as the opposition boycotts the vote:

We constitute the Catalan Republic, as an independent and sovereign country, under the rule of law,” said the preamble to the resolution, read out by speaker Carme Forcadell before the ballot.

Catalan vice-president Oriol Junqueras tweeted:

Catalonia and the rest of us

This article follows a heartfelt email message regarding the political developments in Catalonia, which I sent both the Saker and Ramin Mazaheri, the only “sakerista” I had the pleasure of meeting with in person. Needless to say I get both a pleasant “break” from the feeling of political solitude and a powerful intellectual “kick” out of reading both gentlemen, and […]
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