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I'm amazed by how the Spanish government manages all of this. Haven't they study independence movements in Canada and the U.K.?

The only reason Quebec is not a country is that the Canadian government kept a 'somewhat' cool head during the two referendums.

Breaking Point is a damn good CBC documentary about the Quebec referendum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl7lOundk4Y

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It's Spain, the politicians in the government are using it to cover that they have more than 800 members of their party being under investigation or even prosecuted from corruption. The governing party is being investigated for having using black money to pay for elections among other things like getting rich. They embrace themselves inside the Spanish flag and the unity of the country.

To be fair the regional government is even more corrupt and do exactly the same thing. Even more and also play the victim card

We had something like 200,000 people come to Montreal to "protest" in a unity march: "Please don't leave. Please stay in Canada".

I didn't see that sort of thing during the Scottish referendum, and I sure don't see it in Catalan.

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