Catalonia to Push for Secession Without Approval from Madrid
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Catalonia have been pushing for independence
for a long time
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Many Catalans have been eager to get their independence but
it looks like they’ve been held back at every turn, especially from a political
standpoint.
The government of Catalonia has said that they will continue
their attempts to break away from Spain even if they can’t secure the approval
of the Spanish government.
The debates are becoming as heated as ever as is evidenced
by Catalonia defying the Spanish constitutional court by talking about their
own sovereignty in this manner. The parliament of Catalan put together a
resolution to become an independent state nine months ago but their requests
were never answered by those in Madrid.
Raül Romeva, the Catalonian minster of foreign affairs, has
said that the Spanish state has left Catalonians feeling like they don’t have
an alternative anymore. Their goal was to try and do what Scotland did when
they sought independence; they wished to negotiate with the Spanish government
and hold a democratic referendum. They are trying to talk to Madrid but they
hear nothing in response.
Madrid would like to avoid seeing Spain break up and are
even more apprehsensive following the recent Brexit decision and the idea that
Scotland will once again call for a referendum for independence from the UK; a
referendum that may very well pass this time.
Romeva has almost given Madrid an ultimatum, saying that the
Spanish national government can continue to deny reality and believe that they
can use their courts and legal processes to stop it, or they can accept reality
and prepare for the inevitable Catalan independence.
A recent poll suggests that many Catalonian voters support
the idea of an independent Catalonia and the current incumbent Catalonian
government has already drawn up plans to come up with workable departments for
collecting taxes, social security apparatus and a foreign affairs department
ready for when they gain independence and need such things.
Romera believes that the independence referendum will be
called within a year and believes that Madrid must accept what the Catalonian
people want.
The stance of Madrid is really quite simple to understand;
as Catalonia is not currently a nation any referendum they hold will not be
legally binding in a Spanish or EU court. This is an impasse that Catalonia is
determined to get past.
Romeva said that Catalonia would obviously be an ally ofSpain because of markets and infrastructure and other cultural and linguistic reasons. He also believes that Europe wouldn’t want to lose the socially and
economically dynamic reality. As such any claim that an independent Catalonia
would have no place in the EU is false.
