![]() ![]() Meanwhile, popular support for seceding from Spain – which reached a record high of 48.7% in October 2017 – is currently at 44%, with 48.3% of Catalans in opposition. Pro-independence parties have never managed to take 50% of the vote in regional elections. There has been a growing clamour in the past decade for independence from those Catalans who believe their wealthy region has a moral, cultural and political right to self-determination, and that it has long put more into Spain economically than it has received in return.īut even though successive pro-independence Catalan governments have purported to speak for all Catalans, polls have consistently shown the region is evenly split on the independence issue. How has the independence movement evolved over recent years and why have some of its key figures ended up in the dock? Why do some Catalans want independence? Nine of them were cleared of violent rebellion but convicted of the lesser charges of sedition and misuse of public funds. ![]() ![]() On Monday, Spain’s supreme court announced its verdict in the landmark trial of 12 Catalan leaders accused of rebellion, sedition and misuse of public funds over their roles in the failed push for regional independence two years ago. ![]()
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