Catalonia declares independence. Puigdemont free to roam Belgium.

[mutantsushi]

In Spanish, article on project for regional reform not based on pleasing nationalist concerns:
https://www.elconfidencial.com/espana/andalucia/2017-11-24/bescansa-defiende-constitucion-no-gustara-nacionalistas-iglesias_1483303/
Carolina Bescansa proposes new constitution with French style 2-round presidential system,
senate with role re: regional budget, separating that function from lower house & it's ruling majority,
and legal basis for separatism needing supermajority elections/referendum, contra to vague 'right to decide'.
I am not clear on her idea of senate functioning with basic majority or supermajority style rules...?
To me, such topics should be based on agreed formula accounting for local cost of living / salaries + non-local costs.
And shouldn't need to be voted on anew every year, since formula would accomodate yearly changes.
I guess she doesn't address territorial divisions as such, which seem somewhat arbitrary as modern political entities,
e.g. why not have senate function on provinces not regions? would referendums be on province or region basis?
What of linguistic communities crossing current region boundaries (Catalan/Valencia/Baleares, Asturias + Leon?)
But over all it aims for equitable and symmetric system centered on single plurinational nation,
not cutting assymetric deals with specific groups, but developing coherent federal model for all equally.

Ruling PP as well as PSOE and rest of Podemos seeming to more support current assymetric cut-out deal
with Basque & Navarre, and more amenable to arranging the same for Catalonia AFAIK. Which IMHO is not
stable basis for future because it cements 1-v-1 perspective instead of cultivating discourse amongst entire plurality.