Another crisis for Spain’s Socialists
The Catalan independence project opens up a damaging split between the Spanish Socialists and their long-time allies in Barcelona.
The Catalan independence project opens up a damaging split between the Spanish Socialists and their long-time allies in Barcelona.
Wednesday’s first session of the new Catalan parliament was not dedicated to the economic crisis and the social hardships it has caused, but to the issuing of a Declaration of Sovereignty that is legally void and politically dubious.
The nationalists of CiU are poised to emerge as the region’s dominant force in the November 28 vote, with the Socialists set to suffer a brutal defeat.
A top court’s painfully long decision on the legality of Catalonia’s revised relationship with Spain was relatively underwhelming. However, the ruling creates more problems than it resolves.
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