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| Catalan leader accuses Spain of 'totalitarian' actions |
| 2017-09-21 |
[Al Jazeera] Catalonia's president has accused Spain's central government of "totalitarian" behaviour, after police juggedDrop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! the region's junior economy minister and 12 others in raids of Catalan government offices in the run-up to a planned independence referendum. Carles Puigdemont, the regional leader, denounced Wednesday's operation as "a coordinated aggression by the Spanish government’s police force" in order to stop the Catalans from going ahead with the October 1 vote. "The Spanish state has by all rights intervened in Catalonia's government and has established emergency rule," Puigdemont said in a televised address. "We condemn and reject the anti-democratic and totalitarian actions of the Spanish state," he said, adding that Catalans should still turn out in force to vote in the referendum on a split from Spain that the central government in Madrid has declared illegal. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 I don't think he had "succession" in mind Mullah Richard. I think he was more in the "Make Catalonia a desert and call it peace." school of thought. |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2017-09-21 17:08 |
| #3 Catalonia has wanted to secede from Spain for hundreds of years Franco tried to get rid of them once upon a time, as I recall. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2017-09-21 13:42 |
| #2 Secession. AIUI Catalonia has wanted to secede from Spain for hundreds of years. I figure there has to be a large amount of external influence in this. Major question is how much is coming from the Muzzie world, how much from the Russian / Chinese? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2017-09-21 09:27 |
| #1 Brexit II? |
| Posted by: Raj 2017-09-21 00:46 |