It's my understanding that this is not like the recent Scotland independence vote. It's more like as if a group of pro-independence Texans got elected to the Texas legislature.
Yes, that’s exactly what it’s like. The next step would be for the regional parliament, with its new pro-secession majority, to pass an ordinance of secession, and then ... well, I don’t know what then. Negotiations with the national government of Spain, I guess, resulting in ... who knows.
RATS.