Analysis: Puidgemont returns to show fight for Catalan independence continues – SKWAWKBOX

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Since 1714 Spain has treated Catalonia as a colony, with a fiscal plundering of 22 billion euros a year (10% of Catalonia’s GDP!) and with a racist anti-Catalan attitude. And this has persisted to this day, and that is why we need Catalan independence. We organised a referendum of self-determination in 2017 and, as a result of the repression that followed, President Puigdemont had to spend 7 years in exile in Belgium.

This year, due to the need of President Pedro Sánchez to get the votes of Puigdemont’s party, Junts, an amnesty law was passed on 11 June that would put an end to the repression, among others, of President Puigdemont. For this reason, during the Catalan electoral process on 12 May, Puigdemont said that he would return to Catalonia to participate in the investiture of the future president of the Catalan government.

The repression has made the other major pro-independence party, ERC, leave the confrontation behind and try to pacify the country, but this has led it to lose a lot of votes from the most active and demanding pro-independence supporters. Another pro-independence party, the CUP, disoriented in this scenario, has also been losing a lot of votes.