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The Catalunya Conundrum, Part 1 : How Could Things Come to Such a Pass?

Andrés Boix Palop

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Recht und Gesellschaftddc:342articleIndependència342Comunitats autònomes

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Catalan democratic institutions (both Parliament and Government) have called for a popular vote on whether Catalonia, an autonomous region in the northeast of Spain of almost eight million inhabitants, should declare itself an independent country. The vote is scheduled for the 1st October, but it as of yet the total opposition of the Spanish Government, which considers it illegal and seems determined to stop it by all means, makes things complicated.

10.17176/20170927-212601https://doi.org/10.17176/20170927-212601