CATALUNYA
AND THE INDEPENDÈNCIA
It's been a couple or
three years since the Independència feeling
has attracted many people for several
reasons: the first one is the sentimental reason, a lot of Catalans don't feel
that they belong to Spain; then some other people have economic reasons, it is
said that Catalunya will go better if
they go out of a Spain that is going wrong. On the other side, we have Spanish
people that won't allow Catalunya to
"escape" of the country.
There have always been
people that wanted Catalunya to be an
independent country, but the key moment was three or four years ago in a 11S
celebration. There was a massive crowd in the streets of Barcelona asking for
the indepedència and politicians
started planning campaigns to try to become a new country. Since then, there
have been two president elections. In the first ones, the majority of the Parlament seats were held by political
parties who want the independència.
Then there were another elections.
In the last elections of
2015, he party with more votes were Junts
Pel Sí, a group of many political parties that want Catalunya to be a new state, but they didn't have enough seats in
the Parlament for electing Artur Mas
as a president so they had to negotiate during many time with a young political
party called CUP, who, although they also want the independència, refused Artur Mas as a president. It seemed like
there was no ending and another elections were coming and that would have been
a disaster for all the movement. Finally, Artur Mas didn't become president and
the mayor of Girona did, Carles Puigdemont, so the independència movement is going on.
People aren't happy being
in Spain, so politicians have pressure (and obligation for many people), to
take Catalunya out of Spain. They
won't accept Catalunya leaving and it
will be a long way. Let's see what happens in the next months, or maybe years.
ALBERT ARCOS
2n BATX A
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