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The south was allowed to assemble, talk and vote on it, but the north didn't recognize the secession as legitimate. Those are separate issues.

• JumpCrisscross 9y ago
  Catalonia has been allowed to discuss. It’s just the referendum, as I understand it, that is being banned. I’m trying to think what would happen if California passed an independence referendum whose results were then nullified by the Supreme Court.
  • nsnick 9y ago
    So they can talk about independence but not vote on it?
    • euyyn 9y ago
      Independence would be a modification of the Spanish Constitution, which can be voted on.