Catalonia is and will remain a nation

Four years after Catalonia's Statute of Autonomy came into effect Spain's constitutional court has declared certain parts of it unconstitutional. The Catalan daily El Punt is indignant: "The will of the people of Catalonia is sovereign, and no court ruling that contradicts it can be regarded as an act of justice. The Spanish constitutional court has acted in a way that is legally questionable, juristically incompetent and politically unacceptable. ... We would do well to remember that this statute is a minimal consensus which originated in our country's parliament, was negotiated with Spain and passed by the [Spanish] parliament, corroborated by the will of the people in a referendum and even signed by the king. An impeccable democratic process that is being denigrated by the unjustifiable ruling of a court that lacks even a modicum of honour. Catalonia is a nation, no matter what an absurd court ruling claims."

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