First step to independence? Catalonia's big stakes poll approaches
Catalonia goes to the polls on Sunday in local elections that some hope could set the ball rolling towards independence from Spain.
That is certainly the hope of pro-breakaway ex-Barcelona football coach Pep Guardiola as well as the region’s President Artur Mas who insists that going it alone is a means to an end.
“Independence is not the aim, is not the goal. Independence or having your own state is the tool we need to work out all the other problems,” he said.
But try telling that to Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy who has described independence plans as “nonsense” or his conservative People’s Party’s regional candidate, Xavier Garcia Albiol.
“This flag represents us all,” Garcia Albiol told supporters at a rally, holding up a flag combining the Catalan and Spanish designs, with a heart in the middle.
“The Catalan flag and the Spanish flag with a heart at the centre. This is what makes us proud,” he said.
Anti-independence campaigners point to the consequences of a b
That is certainly the hope of pro-breakaway ex-Barcelona football coach Pep Guardiola as well as the region’s President Artur Mas who insists that going it alone is a means to an end.
“Independence is not the aim, is not the goal. Independence or having your own state is the tool we need to work out all the other problems,” he said.
But try telling that to Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy who has described independence plans as “nonsense” or his conservative People’s Party’s regional candidate, Xavier Garcia Albiol.
“This flag represents us all,” Garcia Albiol told supporters at a rally, holding up a flag combining the Catalan and Spanish designs, with a heart in the middle.
“The Catalan flag and the Spanish flag with a heart at the centre. This is what makes us proud,” he said.
Anti-independence campaigners point to the consequences of a b
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