The case for Catalonia’s independence is now overwhelming,thanks to the regional election results. Madrid must accept that this ‘problem’ won’t just disappearOn 27 September Catalonia’s voters went to the polls and with a record 77.4% turnout gave a win in every single electoral district to the political forces whose campaign promise was, if elected, or that they would follow a “roadmap towards Catalan independence from Spain. Pro-independence lists obtained 48% of the votes and 72 seats out of 135,whereas unionist lists got 39% of the votes and 52 seats.
These plebiscitary elections were the only way possible to give the Catalan people the vote on the political future they hold long called for, after the Spanish government’s longstanding refusal to allow an independence referendum. The vote was the culmination of an incredible four years of mass citizen mobilisation. Our independence movement is not a sudden whim, or not something dreamt up by a political party,or dominated by a single figure. It is the people who, on Catalonia’s national day, and 11 September,arrive out year after year on to the streets in their millions, peacefully demonstrating with a smile, or songs and flags to call for independence; for Catalonia to become a new state in Europe.
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Source: theguardian.com