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Showdown in Spain: I Wholeheartedly Endorse the Catalonia Independence\u00a0Vote<\/a><\/h3>\n

In a move\u00a0many people thought would never happen, the\u00a0Catalan parliament approved a referendum<\/a> that would allow a vote on the region\u2019s independence from Spain. The central government seeks intervention from the Constitutional Court. But short\u00a0of invasion who is going to stop the vote?
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The Spanish government has accused the Catalan Parliament of committing a \u201cconstitutional and democratic atrocity\u201d by approving legislation to allow next month\u2019s bitterly disputed independence referendum to go ahead.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday night, the region\u2019s ruling, pro-sovereignty coalition \u2013 which has a majority in the Catalan Parliament \u2013 managed to get the referendum law passed despite angry objections from opposition MPs, who complained that usual parliamentary procedures had been disregarded.<\/p>\n

The legislation passed by 72 votes after 52 opposition MPs walked out of the chamber in Barcelona in protest at the end of an ill-tempered, 11-hour session.<\/p>\n

The move was denounced by the Spanish government, which once again said it would do everything in its legal and political power to stop the vote from going ahead on 1 October.<\/p>\n

The Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, ordered government lawyers to file a complaint with the country\u2019s constitutional court so that the vote could be annulled.<\/p>\n

The public prosecutor\u2019s office also said it was preparing a case against Catalan parliamentary officials \u2013 including the speaker, Carme Forcadell \u2013 for disobeying previous court orders forbidding legislative steps towards independence.<\/p>\n

Catalan separatists insist the wealthy north-eastern region has a political, economic and cultural right to self-determination.<\/p>\n

But Madrid is opposed to independence, arguing that it is a violation of the constitution, and has refused to offer a Scottish-style referendum on the matter.<\/p>\n

Three months ago, Puigdemont announced that the referendum would be held on 1 October and that voters would be asked: \u201cDo you want Catalonia to be an independent country in the form of a republic?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Showdown in Spain: I Wholeheartedly Endorse the Catalonia Independence\u00a0Vote In a move\u00a0many people thought would never happen, the\u00a0Catalan parliament approved a referendum that would allow a vote on the region\u2019s independence from Spain. The central government seeks intervention from the Constitutional Court. But short\u00a0of invasion who is going to stop the vote? The Spanish government […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[117,968,14648,13390,9099,743],"class_list":["post-25331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-catalonia","tag-independence","tag-michael-shedlock","tag-mishtalk","tag-secession","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25332,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25331\/revisions\/25332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}