Catalunya anti-independence movement fills Barcelona's streets chanting 'proud to be Spanish'
Monday, October 14, 2013 @ 10:09 AM
A COUNTER.-REVOLUTION against Catalunya's bid to become an independent nation hit the streets yesterday (Saturday) with around 100,000 residents and natives now living elsewhere in the country waving flags and declaring, 'Catalunya is Spain'.
Chanting, Som Catalunya, somos España – 'we're Catalunya', in catalán and 'we're Spain' in Spanish – they gathered in the Plaça d'Espanya square, the Plaça Sant Jordi de Montjuïc square, and along the chic shopping boulevard, the Passeig de Gràcia, Barcelona's 'Oxford Street'.
Huge cloths measuring over 100 metres in length bore the Spanish flag on one half and the Catalunya regional flag on the other, and many also carried EU flags.
Some bore banners reading Som 47 millons/somos 47 millones, or 'we're 47 million', in reference to Spain's total population, written in both catalán and Spanish.
Others wore massive heart-shaped badges or tabards in the designs of the Spanish, Catalunya and European Union flags.
Many representatives from political parties in opposition to the CiU, led by regional president Artur Mas who is spearheading the now globally-famous drive for Catalunya's independence, joined in the march.
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