I made the body above as an excerpt as there is a transcript with the vid.
Those with some real background please add more info. please. I knew a little (little!)about the separatist movement, but this was / is QUITE a reaction...
Water cannons. I like water cannons.
The “national divorce” occurring in Spain (and other European nations, although not so violently) will soon spread “across the pond”.
Lock and load.
Release the bulls!
I was in Spain when the first round of voting occurred over the summer. In the same sort of outcome that we see here in the U.S., and a few weeks ago in Argentina, the conventional wisdom was that the establishment left would face the wrath of the voters due to a crappy economy, terrible poll numbers, failed policies and an angry, disenchanted electorate... and in every case, the establishment left defied expectations in a big way.
For reference, the Vox-Party of Spain has been around for about a decade. They were prior to that moment...elements of the People’s Party, and were leaned further to the right of the People’s Party.
Their chief original goals? Rewriting the national constitution to marginalize regional authorities. Oddly enough, to fund the start-up of the party...they had political donations (up to around a million Euro) from Iran.
Popularity went up with Vox during the Covid era...as they challenged standards established and vax mandates. Vox also sided with Trump during that 4-year period.
If you did try to line up how right-wing Vox is...with a hundred Spaniards....you’d get 100 different answers. Some actually see them as moderate...some see them as hard-core. Summer national election (2023), they took 12-percent of the votes (19 parties in the election).
Protests and chaos are breaking out all over.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalities_and_regions_of_Spain
I doubt the peoples vote matters anymore in Spain than it does here.
Spain. It’s ignored like Africa.