| Goodnightmoon said: Of course they left, cause this is not a legitim thing to vote and it was made with secret votation which makes it just even more ridiculous. Madrid has to reform the constitution to make a legal referendum, that is complicated, I'm don't like how the government of Spain deals with this, but the government of Catalonia has been completely antidemocratic and out of the law since the beggining of this process, apart from a big liar, yet stranger people have swallowed the fake narrative of Catalonia with fries, one of the most independent, free and richest (thanks to Spain) regions of Europe that claims to be opressed. Utterly ridiculous. |
The overwhelming majority of independence movements in history were "illegal" according to the standards of the states they were separating from. That does not make them anti-democratic. That the central authority doesn't give permission in the first place, is inherently anti-democratic itself. All people have the rights to self-determination and freedom of association.
If Spain worked with Catalonians to make their referendum legal in the first place, I suspect the vote for independence might not have won.. Not because how it was done deprived people of a vote, but because the tactics used by Spain convinced people on the fence to vote for independence. It wasn't like Madrid didn't know this was happening for many months
In a real democracy the people don't need to beg their rulers to vote, they just do it.
