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I cannot find English sources: https://cronicaglobal.elespanol.com/politica/forcadell-pasa-...

The session was televised. The oposition was constantly interrupted and not allowed to talk. They are not even respecting the laws from the catalonian parlament. But I guess they have legitimacy because they have the support of... half the catalonians?

An example of democracy.

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I guess they have legitimacy because they have the support of... half the catalonians?

That's more than any party in the national parliament :)

Is half the support of the catalonians again to secede from the rest of the country and not respect the inner laws of their parlament? Because, to me, it sounds like a coup d'etat.

Maybe, but so what if it is? Labeling is not an argument.

Just a disclaimer, this is one of the most far-right newspaper I've seen in a while.

Then you should read more, maybe. I can think of ABC, La Razón, Intereconomía, La Gaceta or Okdiario.

Apart from pointing that out, is anything of what it says inaccurate?

It's highly partial, and it says nothing about the opposition not allowed to talk. It does say that there was a bitter debate, though, and that it was interrupted twice. It only quotes members from parties against the referendum.

And we have interruptions in every other session of both the Spanish and Catalan Parliaments, from all political spectrum. That's what makes Spanish politics so amusing.

I have to say though that it'll be hard to find a partial accounting of the story, given the state of Spanish media.

Those newspaper are way more partial than the secessionist newspapers, because they're surviving thanks to the public money the government of Catalonia, in nationalistic hands, gives them.

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