Opinió
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Cada terra fa sa guerra
Vicent Partal
26.02.2013
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El Barça calla, tots callem
Vicent Partal
25.02.2013
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No som Escòcia
Vicent Partal
22.02.2013
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Per les dues repúbliques
Vicent Partal
21.02.2013
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Sóc un hexakosioihexe- mkontahexafòbic
Vicent Partal
20.02.2013
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La consciència dels botxins
Vicent Partal
19.02.2013
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Espies, dossiers, corrupció: una miqueta de tranquil·litat...
Vicent Partal
18.02.2013
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Per a eliminar la corrupció
Vicent Partal
15.02.2013
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I aquests que manen a Foment, qui són?
Vicent Partal
14.02.2013
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Una moderada alegria
Vicent Partal
13.02.2013
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Capgirar el debat sobre Europa
Vicent Partal
12.02.2013
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Un any més tard estem molt pitjor
Vicent Partal
11.02.2013
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El senyor gendre i la injustícia
Vicent Partal
08.02.2013
Vicent Partal
25.03.2014
A useless ruling
The ruling from the Spanish Constitutional Court on the "Declaration of Sovereignty and for the Right to Decide of the people of Catalonia" is useless. The Declaration approved in the Catalan Parliament is already outside the Spanish legal framework, to which it makes no reference. It is rather an announcement made to the international community, where the Spanish Constitutional Court simply has no jurisdiction.
Quite often there's someone who asks "and when will the Catalan Parliament dare to break with Spain?" This is the question that always surprises me and that I generally answer by saying that it already did, on January 23, 2013. Precisely with this declaration. The members of Parliament voted at that time that "The Catalan people has, by reason of democratic legitimacy, political and legal sovereignty." and that changed—and in fact changes everything already—what happens from that point forward.
When a country, a human community, declares itself a "sovereign political and legal subject", what it is saying implicitly is that it doesn't recognize any sovereignty superior to its own. "Sovereign" is a word that cannot be questioned, it is not at all ambiguous in international law. And it is obvious that if a parliament doesn't recognize any sovereignty superior to its own than neither will it recognize a ruling that comes from a distinct sovereign power, in this case, the Spanish one.
And that doesn't depend on whether we are already independent or not. Sovereignty and independence are not synonyms. We have not achieved independence yet because we have not proclaimed it and therefore in consequence no one can yet recognize it. The Declaration of Sovereignty is precisely the foundational stone necessary for proclaiming it.
When the independence of Catalonia is proclaimed, if there is no agreement with Spain, it will be the other states, the 206 that there are in the world, who will decide if Catalonia is an independent state or not. It won't be Spain who decides if we are or are not independent, they will simply be one more actor next to 205 others. And this decision will be made not by studying if the process is in agreement with Spanish law but rather if it is in agreement with international law. And this is where the declaration of sovereignty is indispensable: no country can become independent before proclaiming its sovereignty.
Mail Obert
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La ignorància del rei
Oriol Izquierdo
27.07.2015
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Parla amb la teva àvia (i II)
Andreu Barnils
26.07.2015
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Sean Scully a Santa Cecília de Montserrat
Mercè Ibarz
25.07.2015
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L'exemple de la ILP per l'habitatge: desobeir i avançar junts
Bel Zaballa
24.07.2015
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No és ignorància: és cinisme i mala fe
Pere Cardús
23.07.2015
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L'escepticisme jacobí lleument esquerdat
Joan-Lluís Lluís
22.07.2015
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Peix al cove ‘reloaded’
Marta Rojals
21.07.2015
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A Grècia, dos assassinats
Andreu Barnils
19.07.2015
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La llista independentista: un artefacte imbatible?
Pere Cardús
16.07.2015
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La meva llista civil per la independència
Bel Zaballa
15.07.2015
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#cimeraindepe, minut i resultat
Marta Rojals
14.07.2015
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Ara és l’Hora: la candidatura del sí-sí
Oriol Izquierdo
13.07.2015
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Amb sense president
Andreu Barnils
12.07.2015
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Fills de l’exili, de les migracions, de l’educació
Mercè Ibarz
11.07.2015
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Si #TV3noemrepresenta, qui ho farà?
Marta Rojals
07.07.2015
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Lluís Llach, el Camp Nou i una fam de trenta anys
Joan-Lluís Lluís
06.07.2015
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Joan Herrera, al divan (II)
Andreu Barnils
05.07.2015
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Salvador Iborra, no és cosa nostra
Roger Cassany
04.07.2015
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La llista electoral que pot passar la prova de l'ànec
Pere Cardús
02.07.2015
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Orwell 2.0, o digues-me què cliques i et diré qui ets
Bel Zaballa
01.07.2015
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'Indepe' amb mar de fons
Marta Rojals
30.06.2015
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La resposta
Oriol Izquierdo
29.06.2015
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Joan Herrera, al divan
Andreu Barnils
28.06.2015
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40 anys de tot allò, 30 d’això
Mercè Ibarz
27.06.2015
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El mètode per a sumar els 'sí se puede' a la independència
Pere Cardús
25.06.2015