CATALONIA
" After a recent election returned a coalition of pro-independence
Catalonian parties to a majority of 70 seats in the Catalonian 135-seat
parliament, the neofascist Madrid government of Mariano Rajoy has been
put into a quandary. The Catalonian parliament has re-elected former
Catalonian President Carles Puigdemont, who was removed by Rajoy after
an October 1, 2017 referendum that favored independence. Puigdemont, who
is in self-exile in Belgium, where he has the support of the powerful
Flemish pro-independence party, faces arrest by the Madrid regime if he
returns to Catalonia. The thuggish reaction by the Rajoy regime has
engendered sympathy for the Catalonian cause in other
secessionist-minded regions of Spain, including the Basque region,
Valencia, and Galicia, and around the world. The Castillian imperialists
who govern Spain imprisoned several members of the Catalonian
government in a Madrid prison after Rajoy imposed direct rule on
Catalonia. "
