Getting over the authoritarian past – an experience of the Catalan Referendum

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Background of the Catalan Referendum

GARAM KWON-on 12/01/2017

On 28^th June 2010, the Supreme Court of Spain rejected the Catalan Statute of Autonomy, modified and approved by both the Catalan and Spanish parliaments in 2006. An application of the updated Catalan Statute was viewed as the most novel departure of the Spanish democracy since the end of the Francoist dictatorship, as it recognised broader competences for the Catalan government and, above all things, the Catalan people as a nation. Two weeks after the Supreme Court’s verdict, more than a million people of Catalonia went out into the street, under the slogan of ‘We are a nation’ (Sóm una nació), to protest the Court’s decision. Since then, local grassroots movements for independence have continued to grow.

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