So I guess that as a concession to the still strong fascist powers, the Constitution stated that is a crime to attempt to break the "the indissoluble unity of the Spanish nation".
This doesn't make sense in the 21st century, I think, but that's the way it is.
The Spanish Constitution is based in a very broad agreement, from Communists to the Far-Right Wing.
Then that agreement (the Constitution) was voted by all the Spanish People and received an immense support.
See the table here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_constitutional_referen...
Every major party wanted indivisibility of Spain, including the PCE or Communist Party of Spain.
So please don't try to sell the territorial indivisibility as a right or center-right thing.
My generation did not vote for the constitution, and many of us dislike it. I agree that it is a conservative constitution made out of fear, with a flawed electoral system, a king, etc. The same fear that the party in power, lineage of the dictators, uses to address our aging population.
"Mejor malo conocido que bueno por conocer" (Better a known bad than the good that is jet to be known) is the worst Spanish saying.
I am Andalusian and pro-referendum.
Please don't spread misinformation.
You're confusing the referendum for politic reform of 1976 with the constitution of 1978. BOTH were voted in national referendum by free, direct and secret vote.
If you were suggesting that people didn't vote freely because fear, you are wrong.
My generation did not vote for the constitution, and many of us dislike it.
That's OK. There are, in the constitution itself a sort of ways to ammend it. If you have enough votes, you can do mostly everything.
I'm not opposed to the referendum, but those places are not under the rule of the Spanish constitution.
You are confusing two meanings of the word. There is the meaning of breaking a country for whatever reasons. Like Sudan, or the USSR or Yugoslavia. There is another meaning: the crime of secession that tries to break a country by force and against its legitimate authorities, that often ends in a blood bath.
First meaning is not the same as the second.
The national government is held by PP, a right-wing party where a lot of corruption cases surfaced recently. There is much pressure about this, but the reality is that the prime minister was voted by a majority of parliament, so...
On the other hand, the referendum organizers voted it in an illegitimate regional parlament session. The regional president's party has been also corrupted to the roots. They were trying to hide it all behind all this adventure.
By the way, polls show that people in favor of having a referendum is majority. A lot of people agree to have a referendum when they themselves would vote no to independence. They are different things
> This is not a referendum to ask about sideways width. It's about asking people if they want to commit a crime: secession.
Secession is a crime? Tried Scotland or Quebec to commit a crime?
Czech Republic and Slovakia are criminals?