Following quite a while of brinkmanship, it has at
long last happened: On Friday the Catalan Parliament voted for Catalonia
announcing freedom from the rest of Spain, with a view to severing it as a
sovereign republic thereby.
The vote, which conveyed 70 votes in favour of
independence, came after a typically warmed session when Catalonia's Socialist
Party (the PSC) left the 135-seats chamber in challenge and protest before the
voting occurred. While that blacklist or the boycott is a risk to the apparent legitimacy
of the parliament's vote, the pro-independence forces, in any case, got an
unequivocal lion's share, yet an unobtrusive one.
It was really a certain confident step of the
pioneers of a brave new country. In any case, within an hour, the shockwaves of
Catalonia's statement of independence had reverberated crosswise over
Barcelona, Madrid and also all the way to Brussels and beyond.
Furthermore, in the city of the Catalan capital, the
inclination of the people and their mood was euphoric - was bound with
premonition and uncertainty. "I have cried. I have been sitting tight 60
years for this, be that as it may, I am less hopeful than my child; Spain
wouldn't give us a chance to escape with it. They will put the forces on
Catalonia, I am sure of it” said Ángel Colomé, one of the thousands of Catalans
who rioted for Barcelona on Friday night.
As a large number of
Catalans celebrated the locale's parliament's independence announcement, Spain
said it was terminating Catalonia's administration. "Catalonia is an
indispensable part of Spain, and the United States underpins the Spanish
government's administrative measures to keep Spain strong and joined
together," said Heather Nauert, US State Department representative, in an
announcement.