CATALONIA -- REFLECTIONS ON CATALONIA | Ian Duncan
On the morning of 9 November I found myself in Vila de Gracia in downtown Barcelona. It isn’t on any tourist route. It’s quite a plain building in the suburbs, and yet I was there early. So were a great many others. A queue had formed which wound its way from the door of the school in a great arc round the courtyard. At 9.00am the doors opened and voting in the Catalonian ‘Public Participatory Process’ began. The crowd burst into spontaneous applause. I was moved. It was hard not to be when a crowd several hundred strong applaud their right to vote. At other polling stations, the crowds sang the Catalan anthem.
