Scotland and Catalonia will legally vote on independence sooner or later, but it will take persistent demand, according to a former Catalan government minister jailed for his part in the ill-fated 2017 Catalan independence referendum
sooner or later, but it will take persistent demand to politically address the question, according to a former Catalan government minister jailed for his part in the ill-fated 2017 Catalan independence referendum.
“There is a democratic principle that says when there is a persistent demand to politically address a question, there is an obligation to solve this ... in Scotland and Catalonia. Romeva said Catalonia’s independence movement was still a “work in progress” and, for a long time, many people had been trying to diminish the importance of what was going on there.
He said the political scenario in Catalonia now was where it had always been: “Seventy per cent of the population understands that there is a political conflict in Catalonia in the sense that Catalonia wants to be something that the Spanish State doesn’t want it to be. “We assumed the consequences saying, ‘the state is not allowing us to do this the way we want it, but we need to show that our will is honest’.
Romeva said that is still happening: “We are talking about thousands and I’m not exaggerating – the prosecutor is simply keeping open [the cases of] several thousands of people and that is a reason why the people who wanted to be independent in 2017 remain committed to it. “I myself can go back to prison because the pardon can be reversed by the Supreme Court, and I have another trial pending that has to do with my role as Foreign Affairs Minister.During the campaigns to overturn the indy leaders’ jail terms, numerous international bodies said Spain had breached the jailed independence leaders’ basic human rights, but despite this and several calls for the European Parliament to intervene, the silence from Brussels was deafening.
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