comentari a un article: whats next for catalonia?

Article : http://harvardpolitics.com/world/whats-next-for-catalonia/

comentari:

let me point out some  questions:

1.- About the "slight mayority": according to the results of the last elections done in catalonia the last 21st of december 2018, the different parties and ideologies represented by them obtained the next percentages:
- Ciudadanos (extreme right, spanishness) = 25,3 %
- Partido Popular (center right, spanishness, party that dominates full spain)= 4,3%
Ciudadanos and Partido Popular are the adamantly opposed to independence= 29,5%

- Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya (center left, catalanist, federalist): 13,8%
- Podem-En Comú (Eu-IC) (lefttish, catalanist, federalist, neutral on the indy issue): 7,4%
PSC and Comuns defend a catalan state federated as equal to the spanish state. En comú in particular was neutral on the independence issue, so both had part of the independentist votes.

- CUP (leftish, catalanist, neatly independentist) = 4,46%
- ERC (center left, catalanist, neatly independentist) = 21,38%
- Junts per catalunya (center right, catalanist, neatly independentist) = 21,66%
Cup, ERC and Junts make 47,5% neatly independentist

So there is here a 68,75% of voters backing a catalan state. Thats not a slight majority.
Theres at least a 47,5% clearly independentist, but only a 29,5% clearly anti independence.
Have been more clearly indepentist voters in this 21st elections than there were in the 1st of october referendum (when state terrorized people in order to avoid them to go to vote. More than 2 milion voted then for independence).

You simply cant trust on the surveys done by spain on the issue.
The only way to know if there is a majority of catalans who want independence is to let them express. And that, existing legal ways to be done, cant be done because of the denial of the spanish state. By this way, the spanish state is opposing to more than 80% of catalan people who, independentist or not, think that have the right to express their opinion. And thats not a slight majority either.

2.- After that , you say that is all about selfishness. What would happen if..? (corsica, sardinia, sicily, Venice, Basque country, and so on). About this issue: what about the selfishness of the beneficiaries of the status quo? What about that majority of spaniards who deny a national minority to have rights? Thats not an issue?

Catalans are doing a revolution consisting in trying to change borders, againts the will ot the state within they are, and without the blood that uses to be required to write them on the maps.

3.- Finally: is not a matter of catalan nationalism since the only nationalism in catalonia consists in saying that catalans are a nation. You can call them nationalists if you do the same to any person in the world who defends that his nation is a nation.
The only dangerous nationalism is imperialism, consisting in one nation walking over another. Nazism was imperialism (the III Reich, do you remember?). Spain has a long imperialist tradition (mixed with fanatic religion). USSR was imperialism. Mussolini was imperialism (remembering the roman empire times and with campaign in greece included).The european nationalism itself began as a reaction to the napoleonic imperialism. While the worldwide extension was also a reaction againts imperialist colonialism.

So dont mix the questions, please.
The majority for a catalan sovereighnity is not slight at all (68,75% for statehood, more than 80% for the right of vote)
The question of selfishness should be rethinked.
The use of the nationalist issue is closely a manipulation of the real facts since ignores the real question: imperialism.

thanks for your approach to this issue; sorry for my poor english. Thanks for reading my comment. Have a nice day.