The Catalan Labyrinth

... point out the principal landmarks of the conflict in their dialectical totality. Before the referendum: escalation of the conflict The Catalan conflict that began brewing at the start of the global crisis entered a new stage in June 2017 when Carles Puigdemont, the head of Catalonia’s Generalitat (government), announced an independence referendum to be held on October 1, 2017. In response, the right-wing conservative People’s Party (PP) represented by Mariano Rajoy stated that the referendum ...