SPAIN AGAINST THE CATALONIA NATION --- The law is the law: legalistic distortions between official Spain and Catalonia | openDemocracy
The Catalanists’ democratic credentials are shoehorned into a one-size-fits-all horror story of minority nationalism that allows non-violent Catalans to be condemned in carelessly violent language.
Demanding to vote, September,2014..Joan Campderrós-i-Canas/Flickr. Some rights reserved.
Throughout, the Rajoy
government’s response to the massive campaign of protest in Catalonia over the
past five years has been legal, not political. This is based on the
much-repeated point that any vote on separation by any one part of the country
is incompatible with Spain’s 1978 Constitution, and above all Article Two,
which declares that the Constitution is based on “the indissoluble unity of the
Spanish Nation, the common and indivisible homeland of all Spaniards”. Hence, a
Catalan vote is illegal, plain and simple.
Beyond that, any
political approaches have been very hard to find.
