The Spanish Constitutional Court has sentenced that the Catalan Statute doesn’t fit in the Spanish Constitution. A heavily watered down version of the Statute approved by 90% of Catalan Parliament in 2005. It was mutilated by the Spanish Parliament but even then afterwards it was approved by the Catalans in a referendum has now been further cut by a court. After all these changes this Statute is now a step backwards from the one approved in 1979.
In an exhibition of Spanish imperial arrogance a court has defied people’s will. …

Sembla ser que ara a Madrid no els acaba d’agradar això de la IP del referèndum dels Srs López Tena i Uriel Bertran. És interessant el concepte de democràcia i d’estat que tenen a Madrid.
D’estat perquè si pensessin que la Generalitat és estat (vull dir, part de l’estat espanyol) quin problema hi ha en que la Generalitat organitzi referèndums sobre assumptes que interessen als ciutadans? (perdó, vull dir consultes, que referèndum sona massa seriós i les decisions serioses es prenen sempre a Madrid). Per tant, ens deixen clar que …

L’Artur Mas ha fet recentment unes declaracions dient que per a ell el país no estava “madur” per a votar sobre la independència. Podem deixar que el líder del partit que, segons les enquestes, podria guanyar les eleccions al Parlament pensi d’aquesta manera i no passi res?
Per començar, dir que el país no és madur és un greu menyspreu cap al poble català i evidència un complexe d’inferioritat molt seriós. El poble català és perfectament madur com per a decidir el seu futur lliurement i democràtica ja que decideix …

Today the Catalan Parliament has admitted a popular referendum initiative to organise a referendum of independence. Two proposals were made using the recently approved “popular consultations” law which allows the Catalan Government to organise referendums. There’s a catch though, before taking place the referendum has to be approved by the Spanish Parliament .
There were two proposals sent to the Catalan Parliament a few days ago, the first one, submitted by David Vinyals and other members of Reagrupament, just asked the same question that has been voted in the popular referendums …

Zapatero declared on May the 25th that: “hemos culminado la fase del autogobierno” (link in Spanish) (this is the culmination of the phase of self-government), you can even check the audio here (in Spanish). Quite explicitly declaring that he has no intention of supporting any further self-government increases for the autonomous communities, like Catalonia, and implicitly telling us what can we expect of the forever delayed sentence from the Spanish Constitutional Court on the Catalan Statute of Autonomy.
Catalan independentism had forgotten about the Statute a long time ago, looking …