But the referendum was invalid because of the constitution, you can't ignore the constitution because you want, you need to change the constitution.
(It's my understanding that the laws passed by the local catalonian parliament that said things would happen as a consequence of the referendum result were thoroughly voided before the referendum due to being against both spanish and catalonian rules. At that point, one should be able to treat the referendum as just a poll to inform future politics)
My country has a similar constitution, a region can't separate unless the constitution is changed. Probably this is not fair for some regions but it is how it is, you can't decide to ignore constitution, not sure how this is in your country. I was hoping that in future EU would unite us and we get rid of the nationalistic views and finally borders.
This referendum may have been 'illegal' according to the rules of one game, but that's the point - some folks want to play another.
(Not taking a side on the matter; not my country, I'm woefully under-informed.)
More than 50% (70 of 135) of the democratically elected local parliament voted for independence too.
From google:
> a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.
From wikipedia:
> In politics and history, a colony is a territory under the immediate political control of a state, distinct from the home territory of the sovereign.
If Spain asserts itself as the ruler of Catalonia, without the will of the Catalans, it appears to me that the word is very apt.
Edit: to the person responding, you only see what you want to see. Police acted according to judiciary orders and there were no deaths and just a handful of injured people. Try to resist police in any other civilized country and see what you get.
Edit2: did you see the idiot father charging against the police with a child in his shoulders? did you see the police reaction? or the man that knocked inconscious a policeman throwing a chair at him? or the one kicking a fallen policeman in the head without provocation? did you know that most of the charges footage are old from mossos, not spanish police, from Chile or other countries? Or the girl saying she was tortured and forgot in what arm were the fingers supposedly broken? Real injured numbers are literally a handful, even The Guardian had to admit they've been duped. Of course nothing near the 800 mentioned in propaganda.
Oh and keep downvoting, you can't downvote facts and they0re surfacing now.
Your comment is problematic because you crossed into incivility. Pugilistic comments on divisive topics produce conflagrations. Those are all the same on the internet and therefore they are all boring and therefore we don't want them here. Since this thread has managed to remain relatively civil despite people being on opposing sides of the issue, a comment like this does more relative damage even than it usually would. That's probably the reason for the downvotes.
The guidelines also ask people not to go on about downvoting, so please don't do that either.
Link please?
Certainly Mexico would hold a minority vote and not be able to influence the outcome. Does that mean that all the people of Mexico are "ignoring the constitution" if they don't want to be in the United States?
Uh? Why not? This has been done countless of times in history.
Sure in past that append a common term for that is "revolution" or "coup".
The United States was an exception, but it was an exception borne of geographic distance and fighting against a parent already beset by its adjacent neighbors. Catalan will have no such military advantages if people try to settle this dispute via civil war.