Sovereignism last “final” Dyad – The País.com (Spain)

Manifestation of National Day 2013 on Paseo de Gracia in Barcelona. / JOSEP LAGO (AFP)

Catalan independence rely on the demonstration that prepare for the National Day on Thursday in Barcelona is the “final” to force the call for self-determination consultation on 9 November. The Catalan National Assembly is convinced fill seven miles totaling the two main streets of the city, Gran Vía and Diagonal at a concentration as V has exceeded 455,000 entries, over which there was last year Human chain for the right to decide. The Assembly hopes that the demonstration would prevent the Government from wrinkling before the expected suspension of consultation by the Constitutional Court. Pending this, the Democratic Coalition said yesterday that will continue to prepare the query whatever they say judges but did not say if the ballot.

“It’s the ultimate Dyad,” says the president of the ANC Carme Forcadell, in an attempt to increase. The V is formed by joining two of the main streets of Barcelona, ​​an area of ​​200,000 square meters in which organizers want to form a giant Catalan flag with the shirts of the protesters. A enrollees are assigned a section and a colored shirt. The inscriptions, although the summer began limping, have already exceeded the number of registered human chain for 2013: 450,000 registered, a figure which is then passed on the street with the assistance of people who were not enrolled. Forcadell wants more to ensure that the entire route is packed.

At the apex of the V will be young people who have 9 November 16, minimum voting age in the referendum. On stage, in which speeches will be pronounced, the set features 947 ballot boxes, one for each Catalan town. The Government has given the design of the polls, which are manufactured according to the ANC, in the same place where the 9-N will be prepared at the Centre of Initiatives for the Reintegration of Lleida.

Not the unique collaboration of the Government with the human V. Òmnium ANC and take care to avoid public subsidies in its budget (the first since its founding in 2012, the second took the decision last year and only receives 10% of its municipal accounts of small contributions), but the Catalan Government encourages participation in the march and virtually all directors attend. Public media Catalans take weeks doing extensive coverage of the preparations for the National Day and the sovereignist parties openly encouraged to endorse the act. Convergence also emphasizes the importance of mobilization on September 11. Its overall coordinator Josep Rull, said yesterday that “will decide on the 9N is not Madrid, but it will be from Catalonia”,

Although most Catalans, according to a survey by COUNTRY Metroscopia are supporters to abide by the ruling of the Constitutional Court on the query, Rull yesterday left the door open you can also summon. “The day after the suspension will stay not idly (…) we are convinced of the legality of constitutional and statutory terms and especially the legitimacy of what we’re doing,” he said. Your goal now is to “articulate the democratic guarantees sufficient to not only have polls, but they become effective from the point of view of international recognition”

The Dyad in figures

• The organizers of the” V “(convened by the ANC concentration day 11) consider that the current 450,000 registered will not have trouble filling the whole journey; remember, for instance, that in 2013 Via Catalana was 450,000 and in the end were enrolled and a half million attendees, according to his calculations. Civil Society Catalan defender permanence of Catalonia in Spain entity, told participants that human chain (using the photos of the journey that hung the ANC) and reduced the number to 800,000 participants.

• In 2013 1.111 mobilized buses to transport protesters to each point of the human chain. This year is expected on arrival in Barcelona of 1,510 coaches.

• Òmnium ANC and prepared the act of “V”, which will cost 130,000 euros to endow it with great symbolism. The Catalan flag that want to be seen from the sky-have sold 15,000 T-shirts- 54 groups will be added casteller.

• Attend almost all counselors Catalan Government. President Artur Mas will not, but get to the organizers.

While the independence is preparing its third show of force, supporters of the unit of Spain are mobilized. Civil societat Catalana organizes for the same on 11 march in Tarragona to claim the Catalan flag, the Catalan flag that has lost weight in recent years against estelada, the independence teaches. Civil societat stroll a Catalan flag large the city and next to the amphitheater of the city, will offer his version of the history of Catalonia, different from advocating independence.

To provide it with more Content symbolic mobilization, Civil Catalan Society will do the day before, on September 10, a wreath at the tomb of Rafael Casanova, the Minister in Cap de Barcelona in 1714 that political parties pay homage every September 11.

Civil Catalan Society admits that their mobilization is symbolic, since the number of attendees will alienate much of the hundreds of thousands who are expected in the V-independence human.