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And the sovereignty of the government comes from the social contract. When a big part of the citizens feel that they are not represented by the government, the

And the sovereignty of the government comes from the social contract. When a big part of the citizens feel that they are not represented by the government, the social contract is broken. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract The Spaniards seem to love Rajoy, as they give him the majority in every election. Rajoy's party, "Partido Popular", is voted by less than 8% of the Catalans. So, the question is, why the Catalans need to be governed by a political party, that not only rules against them, but that does not represent Catalan society? There are more than 2 million people that do not accept the government of Madrid. How will Madrid rule over all this people without transforming Spain to a full-blown dictatorship again?

notspanishflu 9y ago
Are you kidding? Do you know how a democracy works?
- ryanlol 9y ago
  It works in a manner which encourages secession for regions which generally hold distinctly different political opinions than the rest of the country.
- dang 9y ago
  You've been repeatedly violating the site guidelines by posting uncivilly, unsubstantively, using this site for political battle, and generally ruining this and other threads. We ban accounts that do that regardless of how good your cause is or how wrong someone else is. We have to, because otherwise this place will destroy itself. I'm not going to ban you because you've used HN as intended before this recent political crisis. But it's dismaying that I had to look back through hundreds of comments to determine that. I understand how emotional these topics can be, but would you please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and not post like this to HN again?