{"id":182241,"date":"2015-11-10T21:18:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T02:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/11\/10\/it-just-got-real-in-spain\/"},"modified":"2015-11-10T21:18:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T02:18:00","slug":"it-just-got-real-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/11\/10\/it-just-got-real-in-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"It Just Got Real in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Catalan Assembly has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2015-11-09\/catalan-assembly-votes-to-start-secession-process-defying-rajoy\">voted to start the secession process in Spain<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Catalonia\u2019s parliament passed a motion declaring the start of the process for breaking away from Spain, a move Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy says is illegal.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The resolution was approved by 72 votes to 63, Carme Forcadell, the president of the regional assembly said Monday after the debate in parliament. Rajoy said he\u2019ll ask the Constitutional Court to block the decision in a televised statement after the vote.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cToday we are solemnly starting a new state, a Catalan state, a republic, a Catalan republic,\u201d Raul Romeva, parliamentary leader of the main separatist group, told lawmakers during the debate. \u201cThis was our commitment during the electoral campaign.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The regional parliament is pushing ahead with its bid for independence even though it is yet to elect a regional leader, after September\u2019s election left the main separatist alliance led by acting president Artur Mas short of a majority. The anti-capitalist party CUP, which backed the separatist motion, opposes Mas\u2019s candidacy because of his support for business and the reports of corruption within his party. The assembly is due to vote on the presidency later Monday.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if this is a real move toward secession, or if it is some sort posturing about the selection for a President, but in either case, this has a real possibility of getting really ugly really fast.<\/p>\n<p>It might not go pear shaped, but I wouldn&#8217;t buy any real estate in Spain for the next few months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Catalan Assembly has voted to start the secession process in Spain: Catalonia\u2019s parliament passed a motion declaring the start of the process for breaking away from Spain, a move Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy says is illegal.The resolution was approved by 72 votes to 63, Carme Forcadell, the president of the regional assembly said Monday &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[984,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}