At this point I just have to assume you're being wilfully obtuse and don't actually want to engage in debate.
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Catalan Independence Referendum(1-O) - The aftermath
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At this point I just have to assume you're being wilfully obtuse and don't actually want to engage in debate.
Theonik
Member
Maybe the state should consider not making voting illegal in that instance because all they are doing is aggravating in the situation.
Then whatever I read was bullshit, thanks
They will send Guardia Civil not the army.
Plus EU is not the same with the European Court of Human Rights. To trigger the specific article that could suspend Spain from EU it would require that very tragic events to happen in Spain. Even then, the action would be first again responsible people and the country itself (see all the Serbian guys condemned for example).
It's a simple yes/no answer he asked to help acknowledge the concept that the referendum's result is flawed. Whether the state should have allowed it to go ahead doesn't enter into it.
Not at all. The government of their nation organised a vote to gauge their opinion on the subject. They should have voted if they wanted their opinions known.
This wasn't something done under the radar, they had ample opportunity to learn about it. They chose silence.
gutter_trash
Banned
IMO, Portugal's President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa would be the best mediator to bring both Madrid and Barcelona to the negotiation table, plus he is a big history buff
Essentially at the mercy of the central government barring any defections from Catalan units of which I'm not sure how many there are.
I also love to see the dropping of Funky Bombas in here.
The latter. Catalonia has no army.
Pancake Mix
Copied someone else's pancake recipe
No chance in hell.
The European Union will not accept states that break away from its own members, nor should it. There are too many strong nationalist movements in Europe that are getting stronger. Not only that, but EU membership is not automatic and continuous for a new state, so no. Any member can veto, and again, membership is not automatic.
Also, it's likely that the Catalan nationalists have the support of less than 50 percent of the population, so I don't see them being able to UDI, because they only have a majority of support in rural areas.
Night Terror
Member
Unless I misremember, I'm pretty sure that the goverment already said they wouldn't accept any offer to mediate.
Voted in a referendum you see as unlawful?
Are you nuts? That's the last thing you do. It's legitimising the vote.
The solution is for both sides to compromise on an actual pathway for a properly administered vote on independence with equal billing for both sides.
It requires Rajoy to stop persecution of his political enemies and the seperatists to stop trying to control the narrative in Catalonia while preventing unionists from being heard.
Stop it, at this point you´re only embarrassing yourself.
gutter_trash
Banned
So there won't be any peaceful conclusion then
Pancake Mix
Copied someone else's pancake recipe
You cannot be serious...but assuming you are...
No, their nation is Spain, hence why they ignored the illegal, shady, internationally unobserved referendum, counted by a corrupt regional government who pulled a voters list out of thin air. The nationalists counted the votes themselves, on a referendum most Catalans either didn't recognise or were prevented from voting in. You cannot trust the nationalists to count the votes themselves, or that there wasn't multiple voting at different polling stations.
Both sides (Rajoy and Puigdemont) think they are getting a huge amount of votes for this charade and both of them are so stupid that they are going to keep on going down this path. The only thing that can stop them is a shift in popular opinion in one of the 2 sides (PP and independence supporters) that makes their respective idiotic leaders think that they may actually be losing votes, but it may be too late when something like that happens.
gutter_trash
Banned
Agreed,, both being stubborn doesn't do any sides any favors.
Plus King Felipe was totally useless
Their abstention is as good as a no vote when a referendum has no legal grounds to take place
No, the ethnic cleansing came after different parts of ex-Yugoslavia declared independence and the country broke up.
Either way, that's beside the point - ethnic cleansing was a consequence of Yugoslavia breaking up, its insane that you are being so blasé about that happening
Edit: oops sorry, didn't notice the first point had already been made by other posters
Elfotografoalocado
Banned
The state doesn't "make" things illegal. There is a legal framework that protects the rights of citizens, and a regional government cannot just proclaim they are the absolute vouce of their people and they are no longer allegiant to their parent state, and misuse critical data like an electoral census.
The position of the central government is awful, but a regional government cannot just ignore all the laws and expect a recognition of legitimacy.
Why are you commenting on stuff you clearly have no idea about?
After Sunday is impossible a peaceful conclusion. Spanish justice isn't going to allow zero punishments for the Catalan government.
Attempt of sedition is highly punishable. 10 or 15 years in jail.
Theonik
Member
My point is it doesn't matter. The moment the Catalan government chooses to do this they are effectively proclaiming independence from the laws of Spain. There is nothing binding you to the concept of legality when seceding. The majority of independent states did so in this way.
Auctoritas non Veritas Facit Legem.
Hari Seldon
Member
So in Spain you don't have local elections and local referendums? The feds in the US have no say into what goes into local referendums, they can only fight it after the fact if it violates federal law. That is what Spain should do. Allow the local vote and only contest it after the fact.
Pancake Mix
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Edit: We're just regurgitating the same talking points. I hope the situation there doesn't deteriorate though.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
They love valencia, cuz their dream is to replace catalonia economical power with valencia. So they can finally repress our culture without fear.
The breakup of Yugoslavia was messy because the state itself was a hodgepodge amalgam with little alignment to the nations within. National tensions weren't created from nothing by the split, they were the cause of it.
States being realigned and created to fit the nations within should be routine in the EU. Egos and control freakery - on the part of the Spanish regime in this instance - is the problem here, not national identity.
The UK is far from perfect, and I'd vote to leave it in a heartbeat, but at least it has the balls to defend its existence via the ballot box rather than via a paramilitary thug's baton.
Elfotografoalocado
Banned
There are local elections and local referendums.
Imagine now the Governor of a State announces a referendum to be celebrated in 3 months to unilaterally declare independence. Would that be legal?
They love it in words only, PP keeps fucking it fiscally and lack of investment. (Mediterranean Corridor, anyone) Which speaks to our need for fiscal reform.
Assuming there was a evidence that such a vote was demanded by the state's population (regardless of which way they intended to vote), it would be the moral duty of that governor to facilitate it. Legality should not factor into the process, so long as there is no viable legal path to fulfill the democratic mandate provided. Any legal system which would prevent such a path is inherently immoral.
Of course, where a political process exists, it is imperative to follow it.
Or in short; don't follow bad laws.
Acidote
Member
First and foremost because they don't want to. And because they are corrupt. And assholes. And idiotic. Man I hate our current government.
And second but most important because it's not legal for them to allow it either. There should be a lot of work done first modifying certain laws and the constitution. That's the part where I believe the Catalonian government really is in the wrong. They're even bending their own laws to keep going forward.
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
The seccecionists in power are corrupt and a shitshow at managing public money.
Theonik
Member
If Catalonia's total state liabilities are only 70bn Euro they are absolutely fine. Catalonia has a nominal GDP of $255.204bn which puts their debt per GDP at under 50% which is considerably lower than that of Spain which has a debt to GDP of almost 100%. An independent Catalan republic could be far more sustainable financially than Spain is.
But all of that is largely theoretical anyway the question is how much money Catalonia would need for independence, the size of the micro and macroeconomic impact of the split, whether they default on their share of the Spanish debt etc etc.
But all of that is largely theoretical anyway the question is how much money Catalonia would need for independence, the size of the micro and macroeconomic impact of the split, whether they default on their share of the Spanish debt etc etc.
This isn't how any of this work. In your opinion anything should be legal, if people have the desire, that it should be. That isn't democratic, it's anarchy!
What you're saying is contradictory though
On the one hand you say that its ok to "not follow bad laws", yet earlier you refused to accept abstention when a person doesn't recognise a referendum as legal
For a few months before it will completely collapse in on itself. Spain and the EU will let them bleed to death.
veryslowhand
Banned
what if they go independent and someone dont want the new nationality, does that person loose rights in the new country for being a foreigner , do they believe the double nationality would be granted or the central government would make you choose?
I'm saying that legitimacy comes from the people within states and not from the states themselves. Law is a tool to facilitate justice, not a cudgel.
Liberal states govern by consent.
Theonik
Member
This isn't really how it works, but yes, short term they will need to borrow money and those bonds would probably have to carry a pretty hefty premium. It is impossible to tell how any of this would play out. My point is the existing debt is a no factor on Catalonia's future, their biggest issues is FUTURE financing they need after breaking away and keeping businesses in Catalonia. The later I would argue plays in their favour as businesses cannot move overnight though equally the mechanisms for raising revenues/taxes internally can't either. Who knows.
Spain cannot remove their Spanish nationality. That would be illegal.
deathkiller
Member
It doesn't work like that, Catalonian debt is also 100% of it's GDP unless they refuse to pay the part of Spain debt that was spent in Catalonia. Also the Generalitat haven't been able to sell debt in quite some time and they have deficit so they will have to default and stop paying their workers for a while.
Theonik
Member
I'll have you know that all of these are powers sovereign states possess.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
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The Catalonian endgame was not the UDI, the fact that their are still debating internally about it, makes it clear. The endgame was the legal referendum which would inevitably end of a better autonomy. If people fully believes that the referendum wasn't more than a bluff they had to follow until the end, they don't get either Catalonia, the proces or it's politics.
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If PP wants to change the constitution to allow a referendum, won't be alone like in the budget. Most parties in Spain would be favorable to it, except C's, which they would end allowing it.
The problem is not the finding the majority, the problem is PP itself, they are the ones that DON'T want to. They've been building a lot of votes over the extreme unionism they preached over for years, they would lost all these votes, aside from the ideological issue.
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Is called universal census. which was activated 30 minutes before the voting begins, which admitedly was a genious move that made all the police plan irrelevant.
I'm not gonna claim that the referendum is not illegal or have any kind of validity, only gonna claim that it became a social movement, a massive one of people that wanted to vote. 80% of catalans wants to vote on a proper referendum.
http://www.publico.es/espana/80-catalanes-favor-del-referendum.html
The thing is: People here wants to vote, for years central goverment denied a referendum (votes is not the problem, we changed already our constitution to obey our EU and banks overlords, this is an actual issue).
PP dosn't want to allow it, because they been feeding themselves with votes from spanish radical nationalists (and because they have Franco in their DNA). It's totally spitful hate agaisnt catalonia used as a scapegoat to their corruption.
I'm not gonna defend the actual Catalonian goverment, but PP is not leaving them with much choice now. They asked to pact a referendum, and they only found a wall, all this for years.
There's also the issue that if the 2006 catalonian estatut wasn't ruined by PP, we wouldn't be in this situation. Right now, they are the major block in this situation, that's undeniable, the catalonian goverment is willing to speak, they won't.
A referendum is absolutely the best solution to this, Catalonia wants it, and well used it would end the raise of secession nationalists. Insteado of repression, which is only going to further the movement. We need PP to actual sacrifice some votes for the good of his own country for fucking once in their whole history.
But they won't, because they are the politcal children of franco. And neither the catalonian goverment can't stop now, because the nationalist movement is gonna surpass the political spectrum and get out of their control. It already happened in a way, it was society who fighted to vote in 1-0, it was society who basically organized the whole thing, who had to fight and stand against repression.
Even if the catalonian goverment falls, there's not stopping this, and in the end, is gonna end on independence, sooner or later, unless the goverment or other national parties in Spain, accepts that the constitution needs a reform to basically remade Spain, and made it truly a plurinational country.
ecosse_011172
Junior Member
Because they are fucking idiots.
Laws can only work, if those get enforced and they can't just be easily thrown over. The biggest laws are the hardest to change and the strongest to enforce. And then there are laws, which are impossible to change, and need to be protected under all cost, or the complete systems will collapses. That's why nobody can change them! Not citizen or politicians. There are the foundations of the state and law.
Thanks to this security a nation can create safety for its citizen, buissnes and allies. If you want to change such a big thing, you should be willing to destroy anything. People will die, money will be gone and allies will become enemies.
Laws aren't just tools, they are the construct of civilization. Don't play them down as just words and ideas, they have world destroying power. And they will explode, if you're not careful.
This is almost ridiculous in how much it excuses tyranny. I presume you don't recognise those views as authoritarian?
Sorry, I find it hard to empathise with beliefs that place people second to systems.
And people withheld theirs by boycotting the referendum.
Theonik
Member
Sounds like Toryspeak.
Perhaps some did. Perhaps others feared being beaten up or killed by the Spanish regime's thugs.
Polling indicated consistently that an absolute majority of Catalans wanted to vote on the matter, and when offered, 90% voted positively.
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