Spain: Catalan parliament approves 'democratic unilateral mechanism' to secession, despite Constitutional Court decision

<p class="pos-subtitle">The Catalan Chamber approved this Wednesday the conclusions of the Committee to Study the Constitutive Process, which established the next steps in Catalonia’s pro-independence process. The pro-independence forces in the Parliament, governing cross-party list ‘Junts Pel Sí’ and radical left CUP, which represent a majority of 72 MPs in the 135-seat Catalan Parliament, voted in favour of the conclusions, while alternative left alliance ‘Catalunya Sí que es Pot’ voted against. The Spanish Socialist Party (PSC) refused to vote and Spanish Unionist ‘Ciutadans’ and the Conservative People’s Party (PP) expressed their rejection by leaving the Chamber before the vote.
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