Rupture in Spain: Catalan Parliament to Vote for Independence

A major showdown with Madrid is in the works as the Catalan Parliament to Vote on Independence from Spain.
The Catalan independence campaign heads for a potentially perilous new phase on Monday, as the regional parliament prepares to vote on a resolution to ‘disconnect’ from the rest of Spain and renounce all rulings from the country’s constitutional court.
The resolution commits the recently elected parliament to the ‘creation of the independent state of Catalonia, in the form of a republic’.
It also calls for the passing of new legislation to set up an independent tax authority and social security system within 30 days.
Most controversially, perhaps, it states that the Catalan parliament is no longer bound by the decision of Spanish institutions and, in particular, the constitutional court, the highest tribunal in Spain.

This post was published at Global Economic Analysis on Sunday, November 08, 2015.