Yes, Spain still has remnants from the dark past of Franco's dictatorship.
La Falange, a dangerous fascist group that is surprisingly legalized by Spanish laws, has warned about its plans to sabotage the unofficial pro-independence referendum that is to be taken in Barcelona the next April 10th. During the last week, this group is trying to prevent people from going to vote by promoting threatening messages. The last one is that "
they would like to go to the polling places in Barcelona to break the ballot boxes". The leader of
La Falange is calling fascist activists to go to polling places to advice people of the
bad consequences an independence of Catalonia would yield.
About 1 million people are called to go to vote for this unofficial referendum. Some people think this kind of referendums are not a good idea because, since they will have no practical effect, many people would rather go to spend Sunday out with the family. This would lead anti-independentists to use the low participation as a (false) argument to say that Catalans do not want independence. The problem is that, in Spain,
legal auto-determination referendums are forbidden.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the famous sentence often said by tourists when coming to visit Spain is right: "
This is Spain!"
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The fascist group La Falange during a demonstration. |
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