BARCELONA –
With exactly a week to go before the referendum in Catalonia are the tensions if the confusion further on. The Spanish police has the authority over the Catalan police have taken over – after all the overheidsfinancien under the control of Madrid are coming to attack.
Madrid has six thousand agents of the Guardia Civil to Catalonia sent to the premises to be monitored and other public areas: everything to ensure that there is not voting going to be. Because housing in Barcelona are scarce and expensive, are three large foreign cruise ships hired where the agents of the Guardia Civil to 4 October stay: one in the port of Taragona, two in the ports of Barcelona.
Prime minister Rajoy has the Generalitat, the Catalan government, meanwhile, called on publicly to acknowledge that the referendum in Catalonia will not continue. “It would be sensible, sensible and democratic as the Catalan leaders now would stop with this ‘tonterias’ (dommigheden) and say: there will be no referendum. They also know that it will not happen”, said prime minister Rajoy.
Madrid already has many legal resources are used for the plebiscite of October 1 to avoid: there are fourteen officials were arrested, more than ten million ballots seized, and by order of the Spanish Constitutional Court, which is a website of the Generalitat with info about the mood from the air extracted.
But in spite of all the obstacles that Madrid raises, the Catalan government of no districts know and says to go ahead with the referendum. As tweeted ‘president’ Puigdemont that there is a new webite on the referendum is in the air.
It makes for confusion for the Catalans. Sixty percent of the Catalan population sees according to a poll by El Pais this referendum as ” neither legal, nor valid,’ but the majority of them wants to be the Catalan question, however, through mood control.
Architect Xavi and his partner, Maria Rosa Martinez, who since half a year in Colombia to live, are even specially teruggevlogen for the referendum. An hour after they landed, says Maria Rosa on a terrace: “We ourselves will probably never live here, but I have two adult children who live here. I want for them the best: and that is that Catalonia is of Spain separates. We have a different language and culture – and we pay far too much to the Spanish treasury.”
There is just confusion on her where she actually should be going to vote: “We get this time also no polling”, but after an hour of wandering through the neighborhood she knows it: at the Centre Civic, the community centre. “I will be there Sunday: what the cost.”