{"id":30046,"date":"2015-09-29T23:07:07","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T21:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=30046"},"modified":"2015-09-29T23:08:03","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T21:08:03","slug":"30046","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/30046\/","title":{"rendered":"Entrepreneur Alert: Catalonian Independence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pro-independence parties in Spain’s Catalonia region have won an absolute majority in regional elections.<\/p>\n

The main separatist alliance and a smaller nationalist party won 72 seats in the 135-seat regional parliament.<\/p>\n

However, the pro-independence parties fell just short of getting 50% of the vote, winning 1.9 million out of 4 million ballots cast.<\/p>\n

The separatists say the victory gives them a clear mandate to form an independent Catalan state.<\/p>\n

Spain’s central government in Madrid has pledged to challenge any unilateral moves towards independence in court.<\/p>\n

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After a celebration rally, the pro-independence camp’s leaders said they would now proceed towards the creation of an independent Catalan state.<\/p>\n

The result was more ambiguous than the positive rhetoric suggests. The pro-independence camp continues to say they are ready to break away from Spain, even in the face of strong opposition from the Spanish government.<\/p>\n

But they know that would be controversial and complicated. In truth, their aim is still to get a legally-recognized referendum.<\/p>\n

So they will continue to pile the pressure on the government, safe in the knowledge that a Spanish general election is less than three months away.<\/p>\n

A more fractured political landscape at the national level suggests there will either be a change in who holds power, or at least the position of the governing Popular Party (PP) will be weakened. And that might lead to a change of stance over the Catalan question in Madrid.<\/p>\n

Pablo Casado, spokesman for Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s PP party, argued that the separatists had “failed” by not securing a majority of votes.<\/p>\n

Spain’s government has consistently dismissed any secession plans as “nonsense”.<\/p>\n

The pro-independence parties said ahead of the vote that they considered it a de facto referendum on independence from Spain.<\/p>\n

They argue that the Spanish government has consistently refused to allow a legally recognised referendum to take place, ignoring an unofficial vote backing independence in November 2014.<\/p>\n

Opinion polls suggest a majority of Catalans favour a referendum on independence but are evenly divided over whether they want to secede.\u00a0\u00a0 Business Opportunities in Catalonia<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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