Government of Catalonia proposes new referendum, this time the Scottish way, but Spanish politicians and jurists reject the idea

“Do you want Catalonia to be an independent state?” This is the question that the citizens of that Spanish region would answer if the referendum proposed by the president of the Catalan autonomous Executive went ahead this Tuesday. Pere Aragonès assures that he wants to promote popular consultation through a pact with the Government of Spain.

The governor, from the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC, independent, in autonomous power), considers this project the “next major political objective in negotiations with the Spanish State”. In defense of this dialogue, Aragonès emphasizes that “voting on independence is possible in the current legislative framework, being just a question of political will, like amnesty”, in reference to the law recently approved by the Spanish Parliament, which erases any type of responsibility of involved in the failed secession attempt in October 2017, led by the then Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, who fled to Belgium.