They keep calling it "70 to 10". The legislature has 135 seats and most of opposition did not want to participate in an illegal vote.
That makes the real total 70 to 65, a slight majority, not the super-majority needed to form a new country. And polls show the people evenly split. Meanwhile, the Spanish Senate voted 4-to-1 to oppose secession.
Here, Spengler argues that demographics, economics and history favor independence. But this seems to me to be the relevant history:
The Economist: "Spain’s democratic constitution of 1978, which was approved by more than 90% of Catalan voters, gave wide autonomy to the regions but affirmed “the indissoluble unity of the Spanish nation”. Only the Spanish parliament can change the constitution. Mr Puigdemont’s referendum is therefore illegal..."
And for a guy who recently wrote a column harshly condemning Confederate sentimentalism, Spengler seems oddly unconcerned about secessionism. But this is what made me write:
"Americans who cheered Britain for voting for Brexit and supported Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary for standing up to the European Community over mass Muslim immigration should support Catalan nationalists as well."
Catalan Nationalists and Puigemont's Far-Left party supported mass Muslim immigration, flooding the region and even converting by the thousands. Gatestone Inst.:
"Catalonian pro-independence parties have deliberately promoted immigration from Arabic-speaking Muslim countries for more than three decades, in the belief that these immigrants (unlike those from Latin America) would learn the Catalan language rather than speak Spanish.
Although some Catalans are having second thoughts about the wisdom of promoting Muslim mass immigration as a strategy to achieve Catalan independence, at least 10,000 Catalans with links to the separatist movement have actually converted to Islam in recent years.
It is believed that two out of every ten Catalan radicals who belong to the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC), a far-left political party, are converts to Islam. The ERC, which now governs Catalonia, has vehemently refused to sign a cooperation agreement with the central government in Madrid to fight jihadist terrorism.".......
That's one reason there were no bollards on Las Ramblas to stop the recent vehicular terrorist attacks.
As a conservative, I oppose Far-Left Soros-style politics--and he is probably involved. I oppose a jihadi-friendly state in Europe. I oppose an ally being ripped apart by a faction. And I want constitutions to mean what they say.
¡Viva España!
State-UPDATE: State Department's Heather Nauert: “Catalonia is an integral part of Spain, and the United States supports the Spanish government’s constitutional measures to keep Spain strong and united.” Brits, France, NATO concur. As do these citizens, rallying in Barcelona for Spanish Unity:
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