Wednesday, 11 October 2017

AS I SEE IT, CATALAN FOR INDEPENDENCE MIGHT BE PULLING BACK FROM THE BRINK! PART 1.





Mr Puigdemont has offered the Spanish Government an olive branch. Mr Marianio Rajoy and the leaders of all the Spanish regions should take hold of it and negotiate a settlement which brings stability and peace back to Spain, while maintaining the integrity of the State. 

These negotiations could be used to address other contentious regional issues, and should therefore be allowed the necessary time address them.

Standing in the Catalan Parliament, its leader, Carles Puigdemont declared that Catalan has won its right to declare its independence. 



But that, in order to allow time for talks to take place between the Catalan regional government, and the Spanish central Government, and between Catalans themselves.  

He is suspending the independence for a matter of weeks. Thus giving himself and the Spanish central government the necessary space, and, hopefully, the time, to step back from the brink.

It is not difficult to declare a country or a people to be independent, which is to take responsibility for oneself, and, in this case, for the Catalan regional government to assume responsibility for the people living in Catalonia.



The difficulties which Catalonia now faces are many, whether or not it activate its declaration of independence from Spain.  

A Spain which Mr Carles Puigdemont clearly does not see himself or Catalan as being a part of, as he made clear in stating that Catalan has its own language, culture and economy. 

They include him trying to get Catalans who want to remain Spanish, if 'Catalan Spanish', to accept the independence of Catalan. 

Him and the central government containing likely confrontation between pro- and anti-independence Catalans. 



Mr Puigdemont must also be wary of infighting within his own Party, from those who might think he should be moving more rapidly, and those who might think he is moving too rapidly. 

And then, there is also the possible machiavellian intrigues which the Spanish central government, or members of it and supporters of 'Spain united', might indulge in.  

Against the leaders of and supporters of the pro-independence Catalons. 

Both the Catalan regional government and the Spanish central government will have to remain vigilant to prevent or reduce the outbreak of violence.



Probably nobody should have expected that the Catalan government would have simply capitulated and declare that it has made a mistake.  

And it would now declare the result of its independence declaration null and void. 

Consequently, its decision to suspend the declaration was probably the most prudent of all options. 

The key issue now is that of what do both governments, both the national and the regional Catalan government do?







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