Catalonia's Self-Defeating Independence Declaration
The northeastern region of Spain tried to assert its freedom—and looks set to lose it.
The Catalan parliament voted Friday overwhelmingly in favor of independence from Spain, reaffirming the result of the contested independence referendum the region held nearly four weeks ago. The vote marked a major escalation in Catalonia’s territorial dispute with Spain’s central government in Madrid. “We shall constitute the Catalan Republic as an independent, and sovereign, democratic, and social state of law,” the motion read.
But of course it won’t be that
