It is the last act of a long weekend of secessionist demands, taking advantage of the fourth anniversary of the events of October
Some 1,200 people have demonstrated this Sunday in Barcelona to demand independence and commemorate October 3, 2017. This is the last act of a long weekend of secessionist demands, taking advantage of the fourth anniversary of the events in October. The nationalist program started on Friday, with an institutional speech by the Government to declare itself heir to the spirit of 1-O, followed by an act of Òmnium, which managed to bring together a good part of the independence leaders, followed by a meeting of the ANC in Illa ( France), three citizen marches on Saturday and the demonstration this Sunday, which has gathered much fewer people than expected.
The ANC raised the secessionist protest of the Diada in two stages: that of 9/11 and that of October 1 and 3. The 9/11 demonstration already pointed to a fatigue as far as the nationalist mobilization is concerned, 100,800 demonstrated in the Catalan capital, the worst figure since the beginning of the ‘procés’, and the protest this Sunday has corroborated the exhaustion. Only 1,200 people in the demonstration, according to provisional figures from the Urban Guard, called by the ANC to demand independence and commemorate 3-O 2017, the day that thousands of Catalans supported a general strike in rejection against the police charges of the 1-O.
It was the day that the King delivered a speech in which he stated that “it is the responsibility of the legitimate powers of the State to ensure the constitutional order and the normal functioning of the institutions, the validity of the Rule of Law and the self-government of Catalonia, based on the Constitution and in its State of Autonomy «. The Head of State warned that, with their decisions, the pro-independence leaders “have systematically violated the norms approved legally and legitimately, demonstrating an inadmissible disloyalty towards the powers of the State.”
This Sunday’s demonstration has traveled the Diagonal de Barcelona, from Plaza Francesc Macià to Passeig de Gràcia. The president of the Parliament, Laura Borràs, and the vice president of the Generalitat, Jordi Puigneró, have attended. No prominent senior position in ERC, a formation that has faced the ANC for a long time. President Pere Aragonès has supported the march via Twitter: “Proud to belong to a people that rebels, always firm and with determination, against justice.”
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