Here we go again. Lin Catalonia it has again called a referendum on independence. The date is already there: 1st October 2017. The Catalan president Carles Puigdemont Casamajo himself announced the news, expressing his intention to once again disobey the dictates of the central state and the Constitutional Court by proclaiming a referendum for the purpose to ask the citizens of Barcelona and its surroundings if they want Catalonia to be “an independent state in the form of a republic”.
It's no surprise and it's not the first time this has happened. The tug of war between Madrid and Barcelona has been going on since 2014, when a popular vote was called, in which 80% of Catalans voted in favor of secession, which the Spanish Executive declared unconstitutional.
The same fate to which the new referendum also seems destined, provided that it takes place in earnest. The spokesman of the Madrid executive, Inigo Mendez de Vigo, in fact declared: “An illegal referendum will not be held on October XNUMXst that goes against the Constitution".
But in Catalonia they don't want to give up. We recall that on May 24, Puigdemont sent a letter to Premier Mariano Rajoy, inviting him to open official negotiations on the terms and conditions of the referendum, without however receiving any response.
"In implementation of the democratic mandate - the Catalan President declared today - today we had an extraordinary Executive Council to ratify the decision to hold the referendum as an exercise of a nation's legitimate right to self-determination".
