Spain’s Constitutional Court does not appear to be having much luck stopping an imminent Catalan declaration of independence. After ruling on Thursday that the regional parliament won’t be allowed to meet on Monday to declare independence, Catalonia looks to be doing an end around: they’re going to make the announcement Tuesday.
Spain has been struggling to find roadblocks to put in the way of the independence declaration by Catalan President Carles Puigdemont, but suspending a Monday session that was never even officially announced appears to have been useless. Catalan officials say Puigdemont will be addressing parliament Tuesday at 6 p.m., and MPs are expecting he’ll be submitting the declaration to the assembly at the time.
Catalan MPs say the text of the declaration is still being debated, but that at this point there’s no reason to expect any further delays. Spanish courts are unlikely to have time to try to block another session of parliament before it takes place.
Catalan voters overwhelmingly approved secession over the weekend, and a violent crackdown by Spanish police has only added to calls to quickly split from Spain. Spanish officials insist the referendum didn’t count because the courts forbade it. Catalonia’s leaders, however, maintain that the vote was valid and will stand.
Corporate sector and the EU will put the screws to them economically until the separatist government is defeated.
I’m not sure teh Catalans have the nerves or the social order to hunker down and create parallel society complete with shadow institutions & services like the .Kurds or Kosovo Albanians did, or the way the Muslim Brotherhood serviced and administered to it’s base for many years in Egypt.
Considering that Catalan is a EU country and in a calm part of the world, there aren’t bigger power arming and helping to prop them up for future declarations of independence. Unlike the Albanian minority in Kosovo and Kurds in Iraq, this seems to be a purely internal issue with Spain.
Unlike the Kurds they do not have an armed force yet.
King Felipe has sided vocally with Rajoy and against the separatists,
so there is nothing left but the church and the EU to commisurate the
crisis. Military force would be widely condemned, expect a successful
secession, with limited recognition.
gee,whats next civil war a la the u.s in the 19th century.