To: Leaning Right
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.
7 posted on
09/27/2015 5:42:29 PM PDT by
Tax-chick
("There will be no conservative issue islands left to stand on if the red tide comes in."~S. Knish)
To: Tax-chick
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. Which leads to an interesting observation. The West is all for self-determination. But only when it involves other countries, not their own.
9 posted on
09/27/2015 5:48:19 PM PDT by
Leaning Right
(Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
To: Tax-chick; Leaning Right
Note - the separatists won only 47% of the vote and 63 of 137 seats
24 posted on
09/28/2015 5:53:20 AM PDT by
Cronos
(ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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