BARCELONA, Spain — On Friday morning, a major pro-independence Catalan group; Òmnium Cultural made a surprise action at the center of Barcelona, with the deployment of a giant banner reading “Democracy is the way: referendum”. Located in Pelai Street, next to La Rambla, the organization clearly points out to Pedro Sánchez the price to pay if he intends to be appointed and re-elected as Spanish prime minister. On this banner, the word “repression” is crossed out in order to show that this “is not the way”. This is what Òmnium’s president, Xavier Antich, pointed out to the media from the street where this message was displayed.
“The PSOE must leave “repression” behind and that the best solution is for “ballot boxes” to resolve the existing political conflict between Catalonia and the Spanish state: “Pedro Sánchez has to choose between respecting fundamental rights and offering a democratic path such as the referendum, or opening the door to a second chance for the far-right,” he said, in the event that the socialists again reject self-determination in a possible electoral repetition,” said Antich.
