CATALONIA
Four months have now gone by since the Spanish senate voted to use
article 155 of the constitution on Catalonia, the first time ever that
this constitutional clause, allowing the Madrid government to impose its
own power over any autonomous region, has been put to use. The
immediate result was complete Spanish intervention in Catalonia's
institutions of self-government and the dismissal of the Catalan
executive. It was the day after the Catalan Parliament's proclamation of
independence when the approval of 155 was published in the state
gazette.
