Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has announced this weekend his intention to try to formally seize total control over the region of Catalonia. This includes ousting the entire Catalan leadership from power, and revoke their full autonomy.
Catalonia’s autonomy is peculiar within Spain, and revoking it amounts to a massive transfer of power, with the national government seeking to nationalize regional police, regional media outlets, and have full control over the region’s finances.
This starts with sacking Catalan President Carles Puigdemont, a process which is expected to happen this week. Spain’s Senate is to start discussing Rajoy’s bid to seize the region Tuesday, Puigdemont can testify on Thursday in his defense, and the vote is likely Friday.
Rajoy’s goal is to force a snap election in Catalonia, in hopes that they can replace the secessionists with pro-Spain figures, likely from the Socialist Party. Until such a vote, likely impossible until early 2018, Catalonia’s parliament would nominally remain in power under this plan, though Rajoy would have absolute veto power over them, and the parliament would be forbidden questioning any of the national government’s moves/
There is no majority for a Catalan independence, there are a bourgeois Catalan elite and a very loud clique of urban brats banging pots and pans that would very much like to give that impression, that feeds on victimization and violence to cable that fake image & narrative out.
Quite like the urban brats in Venezuela if Spain allow this to spin out of control. which might just be the case if the main donor Soros and his minions are allowed to have it their way.
There is also a majority ordinary and honest, hard working Catalans that didn’t participate in this fake “election” (to avoid legitimizing the stunt) and that have little in common with the Catalan elite and their Gucci-clad 2.0 Maidanites,
43% voter turnout, according top the Wiki. Not a very convincing ‘Yes’, but a surprising level of indifference.
That works-Brute force over those who demand freedom