In a quite shocking escalation of the rhetoric in Spain, a spokesman for the ruling People's Party just issued a (barely) veiled death threat to the President of Catalonia.
"Let's hope that nothing is declared tomorrow because perhaps the person who makes the decalartion will end up like the person who made the declaration 83 years ago."
With no North Korean nuclear test over the weeknd contrary to a Friday morning rumor, S&P futures rebounded and edged higher as European stocks gain, led by Spanish shares after mass demonstrations in favor of Spanish unity and speculation Catalonia may back down on unilateral independence demands, while Chinese mainland stocks reopened catching up to gains missed during the holiday week following last weekend's RRR cut.
Hundreds of thousands of Catalonians took to the streets - estimated by the police at 350,000 people, though organizers said it was twice that - to demonstrate against independence this weekend:
“Catalonia is not all for independence,” said José Manuel Alaminos, a 64-year-old lawyer. He said that Carles Puigdemont, the regional president who has led the independence movement, “is supposed to represent all of us.”
Authored by Martin Armstrong via ArmstrongEconomics.com,
What is going on in Spain is the blueprint what what other governments will do.
The Spanish people themselves outside of Catalonia are deeply divided.
Many see the Catalan vote as offensive and yet others see the government as offensive.
When they finished singing Manolo Escobar in Madrid earlier, the first cry was "Long live Catalonia!"[email protected]/3Bhmk2HEGb
One week after the historic Catalan Independence Referendum vote reopened Europe's populist Pandora Box of nationalist secession movements, tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Catalonia’s capital Barcelona on Sunday to express their opposition to any declaration of independence from Spain, which according to Reuters showed "how divided the region is on the issue."