Published originally in Spanish. Politikon. Considering the exceptional moment we are in, seven editors of Politikon pour their different viewpoints regarding the vote on October 1st, what has happened up to now and what is yet to come. Elena Costas Pérez. Four days before the referendum in Catalonia any diagnostic is bound to be tragic. […]
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Liars and bullies (don’t vote, citizens!)
Published originally in Spanish. Carlos Jiménez Villarejo. Crónica Global. ‘Nobody is worth more than anybody else’ (Antonio Machado) The events of 20 September have made it all clearer. The Civil Guard, as a state law-enforcement agency under orders from Barcelona Investigative Court no. 13, and as part of its judicial commission, searches several state institutions […]
Long Live a Free and Sovereign Pozuelo!
Published originally in Spanish. Luis Garicano. El Diario. I live in Pozuelo, a municipality in the outskirts of Madrid, where I commute daily. Pozuelo is the richest city in Spain, with an average household income of €73,000. Pozuelo is full of good private schools. Many of my neighbors use neither the public school system nor […]
Foreign in my own country
Published originally in Spanish. Roger Senserrich. Politikon. I think I have said this before, but I always felt as belonging, sentimentally at least, to four countries: Venezuela, England, United States and Catalonia. I was born in Venezuela; I lived there until I was 6. I never went again. First, because I was too young, later […]
The expressive vote for independence
Published originally in Spanish. Ricardo Dudda. Letras Libres. For many supporters of Catalan independence, the illegal referendum on October 1 is an act of democracy because it consists in putting a ballot into a ballot box. One of the most frequent errors of the Catalan independence movement is equating voting with democracy. The October 1 […]
Constitutional Democracy and the secession referendum in Catalonia (II)
Constitutional Democracy and the secession referendum in Catalonia (I) Published originally in Spanish. Manuel Toscano. JotDown. II Among the justifications put forward by supporters of the referendum and secessionist adventure is the so-called «right to decide». It has been a powerful rhetorical resource behind which lies the right to self-determination of peoples or secession. That […]
You will make a foreigner out of me
Originally published in Spanish. Juan Claudio de Ramón. The Objective. In democracy secession is the worst of sins. Michael Ignatieff I have –we have- difficulties to make many people understand the severity of what is going on in Catalonia. The difficulty is already high with Spaniards from other parts of the country, who does not […]
To get into the trap
Published originally in Spanish. Soledad Gallego-Díaz. El País. To get into the trap and to close the door: that is what the Catalonian Government want the Catalonians to do, with its insistence on celebrating an independence referendum on October 1st. To fall into the same trap that many other western societies are falling into, assuming […]
Constitutional Democracy and the secession referendum in Catalonia (I)
Published originally in Spanish. Manuel Toscano. JotDown. I What kind of times are these in which one has to defend the obvious, Bertolt Brecht once said. Let’s start by remembering some things. For almost forty years, Spain has been a constitutional democracy, perfectly comparable to the democratic regimes of other countries of the European Union, […]
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Manifest by Spanish Constitutional Law professors in favour to respect the Constitution [EN/FR/DE/IT]
[GDC_row] [GDC_column size=»half»]ENGLISH In October of 2005, we, a numerous group of Constitutional Law professors, signed a manifesto in support of the Statute of Autonomy project for Catalonia that had been passed by the Catalonian Parliament. With the legitimacy that this attitude in favor of maximum self-government for Catalonia affords to those of us who […]