{"id":2340,"date":"2015-09-28T14:11:02","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T14:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=2340"},"modified":"2015-09-28T14:11:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T14:11:02","slug":"election-win-in-catalonia-a-vote-for-independence-sean-crowe-td-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/election-win-in-catalonia-a-vote-for-independence-sean-crowe-td-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Election win in Catalonia \u2018a vote for independence\u2019 \u2013 Se\u00e1n Crowe TD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Election win in Catalonia \u2018a vote for independence\u2019 \u2013 Se\u00e1n Crowe TD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sinn F\u00e9in TD and Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Se\u00e1n Crowe has welcomed the results of the regional elections in Catalonia, saying that the absolute majority won by pro-independence parties shows that there is a clear mandate for an independent Catalan state, one that the government in Madrid can no longer ignore.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Crowe said that the Spanish state was\u00a0clearly in denial following this\u00a0result\u00a0 and that it would also have implications for the European Union<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Crowe said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI welcome and applaud the extraordinary results of the regional elections in Catalonia. Pro-independence parties won nearly 50% of the vote with 1.9 million votes. This is a clear signal to the government in Madrid that there is a strong and growing mandate for an independent Catalan state. This can no longer be ignored or suppressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Spanish state is in denial, using its Franco-inspired Constitution as a fig leaf\u00a0to suppress the\u00a0democratic will of the Catalan people. Any talk of military intervention must be strongly<br \/>\ncondemned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is clearly a growing democratic demand for an independence referendum and I urge the Spanish government to enter into formal negotiations as a matter of urgency. Spanish reluctance to discuss Catalan independence has turned these elections into a de facto vote on independence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese election results will also have implications for the European Union and the current, imagined or real\u00a0barriers, for Catalonia remaining within the EU also\u00a0need to be addressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Catalan people have\u00a0made their voices heard. It now needs a positive and progressive response from Spain and Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Election win in Catalonia \u2018a vote for independence\u2019 \u2013 Se\u00e1n Crowe TD Sinn F\u00e9in TD and Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Se\u00e1n Crowe has welcomed the results of the regional elections in Catalonia, saying that the absolute majority won by pro-independence parties shows that there is a clear mandate for an independent Catalan state, one that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2341,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions\/2341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}