CATALONIA -- ”Demokratin står på spel i Spanien” | SvD
"Democracy is at stake in Spain"
With the people's mandate for independence in the back and by democratic methods, Catalonia soon become a new state in Europe. It writes Romeva, Foreign Minister of the Government of Catalonia. In the days he visits Sweden, which led to protests from the Spanish Embassy.
The government has chosen to hide behind a barrage of lawsuits against Catalonia.
Spain is since the parliamentary elections five months ago in the overall political stalemate. No party has managed to form a government. New elections will be held on June 26 and until a new government has been formed political paralysis will prevail.
The standoff illustrates the lack of consensus in Spanish politics.
This threat to the political stability leads to increased global concerns over the economic recovery in a key EU country is threatened, just when Europe is facing the huge challenges of terrorism, refugee crisis, the humanitarian disaster in Syria, the threat of Brexit and the growing inequalities between EU countries.
Spain's political paralysis has also increased tension between Spain and Catalonia. Catalonia has tried to get negotiations with Spain since 2010, the year in which our self-determination were drastically reduced by a decision of the Spanish Constitutional Court. This despite the fact that the conditions for self-determination had been decided both by the Parliament of Spain and the Catalonia and confirmed by the Catalan people in a referendum.
I was appointed to the Foreign Minister (Minister of Foreign Affairs) of the Catalan government in January this year after the elections to our Parliament, for the first time gave a majority to the parties that want Catalan independence and a clear democratic mandate to move towards independence.
80 percent of the Catalonian population for a referendum on self-determination, writes Romeva, here in an image from the election last September. Photo: Emilio More Nighty / AP
