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• ‟ All we want is to carry out the greatest expression of a free democracy and vote on Catalonia's future. This is not about independence: it is about fundamental civil rights and the universal right of self-determination.

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• ‟ I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them.

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• ‟ There's a serious and worrying return to the fall of democracy in Spain, and it's not just us who are realising that.

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• ‟ Spain's constitution was introduced to cement democracy after Franco's dictatorship, but this government is exploiting its wording as a means to deny us our right to vote.

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• ‟ In 2010, the Spanish constitutional court annulled a large part of the Catalan statute of autonomy negotiated between Catalonia and the previous prime minister, Jose Luis Zapatero. This demolished one of the main agreements achieved during the Spanish transition to democracy - Catalonia's recovery of self-governance.

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• ‟ In a mature democracy, what is legal is decided by parliament... Our process is legitimised by parliament and by the ballot box.

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