Massive protests in Spain against the amnesty proposed by the socialist government.
The socialist party, which secured the second-largest number of votes in the recent elections, has finalized an accord with separatist groups to ensure their support in the upcoming investiture vote. This agreement includes a disputed amnesty law that has been criticized by legal experts as unconstitutional.
Anytime someone tells you a vote is illegal and tries to imprison you for it is just proving you should do it and why.
Now, if they want to just ignore it, okay fair enough, plenty of situations where that’s a reasonable response, but this debacle is clearly Spain working out some Franco still in the system.
It was a very poorly done referendum with people with many people voting multiple times and others not voting because they didn’t recognize their validity.
Putting aside the fact that Catalonia independence is Brexit levels of stupid, It has been used by their politicians to blackmail the government for more funding. Catalonia is a rich and privileged region compared to the rest of Spain.
The amnesty will also cancel debt of all autonous communities of Spain, which disproportionately benefits Catalonia, the community with more debt.
Many protesters are fascist POS, but this time they are right (for the wrong reasons).
It doesn’t matter why they want to leave, short of preserving slavery anyways.
It matters that Spain persecuted them for organizing a vote on it.
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