Posted on 11/12/2017 3:40:29 PM PST by Enlightened1
Spain’s central government has dissolved the Catalan parliament, dismissed the Catalan government, and imposed direct rule following the region’s unilateral declaration of independence on October 27th.
This followed a self-determination referendum which the Spanish authorities deemed illegal and attempted to shut down violently, with the blessing of the European Union’s ruling bodies.
Carles Puigdemont, Catalonia’s ex-president — or president-in-exile, depending on your point of view — had given some indication that he would ignore Madrid’s attempts to terminate his administration and remain in post, but fled to Brussels, Belgium when the authorities closed in.
Several of those who remained behind have been arrested to face charges of rebellion and sedition, with eight former Catalan government ministers and the leaders of the Catalan National Assembly and Omnium Cultural jailed while investigations continue.
Protestors say the detainees are “political prisoners”, and flooded the Avenue Marina to hear speeches from their family members and demand their release.
Puigdemont himself has been subject to a European Arrest Warrant (EAW), a controversial extradition mechanism which requires EU member-states to hand people over to the countries issuing them with little due process.
Spain’s use of the EAW in this case has been controversial, given it was sold to the public as a means of facilitating the extradition of terror suspects and serious criminals, not political opponents.
“To be treated like a criminal, like a drug trafficker, like a paedophile, like a serial killer, I think this is abuse,” Puigdemont commented from Brussels.
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The Catalans are opposed by the Corporatist EU which has a double standard for independence, favoring it in the case of Scotland, prodding Northern Ireland to separate from the UK in the event of Brexit etc. as Nigel Farage sees it and did see it on his radio show this Sunday.
Farage again noted the EU’s hostility to Catalan sovereignty.
In this off year election 20 percent turnout was the turnout and no one complained about the results here in Pennsylvania.
In Catalonia with police harassment at some polling places that cause 900 injuries, they got 43 percent turnout.
Why complain?
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