Spanish government orders GitHub to take down Tsunami Democràtic repository

Re:Spanish government orders GitHub to take down Tsunami Dem... by reallydontask on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @11:31AM (#21398818)

Spain, unlike the UK, has a written constitution, in which the indivisibility of the state is stated.

This means that the first step for any region to legally have any chance of leaving Spain is to change the constitution, which needs bigger than simple majorities (3/5 or 2/3 depending on the procedure), so it's unlikely that this will happen any time soon.

The people that organised the referendum knew this and still went ahead and then things took a turn for the worse.

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Re:Spanish government orders GitHub to take down Tsunami Dem... by gerardvivancos on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @12:50PM (#21399775)

The referendum can happen anyway and the application of the result can be done by modifying the Constitution.

Let's be honest, the only reason not to allow the referendum is that the Spanish Gvnt. does not want it to happen.

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Re:Spanish government orders GitHub to take down Tsunami Dem... by reallydontask on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @03:12PM (#21401382)

That is one reason.

The other reason is that you'd be hard pressed to find a 3/5 or 2/3 support in parliament for amending the constitution so that the state is no longer indivisible.

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