from french (moderated right) paper;

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After the announcement of the Spanish government to suspend the autonomy of Catalonia, hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated Saturday in Barcelona to demand the release of two separatist leaders. The president of the Catalan government must speak at 21h local.

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so in 1 hour .

That's correct, technically that is the official reason. The demonstration was organized to ask for the release of the two separatists that are accused of sedition, but due to the recent triggering of article 155, it has shifted more towards that (as seen in the speeches the politicians in the demonstration have given). As a whole, we could say it's now a demonstration against the recent actions the government and the judiciary system have made (although it's officialy about the two guys in provisional prison).

They did it the wrong way and now the King is rightly clamping down on them. Huzzah for monarchy!

yes so it's close to 20,000,000 in the streets if they had same population than USA

This post was edited by PKSubban on Oct 21 2017 01:43pm

spain is literally north korea

update, that seems bad, look like spanish governement will have to use force (once the 155th vote is done the 27...)

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Following the announcement by Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy of Catalonia's suspension of autonomy, Catalan President Carles Puigdemont said that Madrid's measures were "the worst attack on the Catalan constitution. since Franco ".
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Personaly i hope they will jail or condamn those catalans separatists fast (the leaders only) and show something strong.
I bet they overbided each others on independance for years, now they will lose all their jobs and desserve it.

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ah... i have something about Manuel Valls (previous french first minister for several years)

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Valls was interviewed a few days ago on the channel Antena 3. As everyone knows he was born in Barcelona and his family is Catalan. To the question - the type of behavior adopted by the Catalan government would it be possible in France? - he replied "We would not tolerate a single day".
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/ty







More like 19, did you calculated for china ? Since protest are forbidden too in this country

This post was edited by Saucisson6000 on Oct 21 2017 02:05pm

Well this is no surprise tbh. Everyone knows Puigdemont won't retreat and that his movement lives off a permanent state of hostility, so he's going to prolong this and make it as hard as possible for the national government.

It looks like we reach a point of non-retour



http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/27/europe/catalonia-independence-spain/index.html

Independence is declared !

70-10 vote (secret ballot) but 53 left before voting and 2 null.
Hopefully the Spanish government will fire those scums

Edit ; few minutes after Spanish senate voted to override Catalonia authority.


This post was edited by Saucisson6000 on Oct 27 2017 08:54am