In the last elections to Catalan
parliament in September 2015, there were 5,314,913 Catalan citizens summoned to
vote. 4,115,807 people of them did vote, this is approximatively the 77% of the
electorate. After a long period of discussion, the parliament entrusted the
government to an independentist coalition (JxSi) with the support of the less
voted party represented in the parliament, called “the CUP” (the Catalan acronym
for something like “the people’s unity candidature”).
This political group, which denies being
a party but a political association assembly, claims to be socialist (not in
the usual European social democracy meaning but in the way of Cuba and
Venezuela). But above all, they
are an independentist and anti-system group that fights for revolution
throughout what they call the “Catalan countries”, namely, all places with
Catalonian culture and language including a significant French area.
