Today is a very special day for Catalonia

Dear friends,

Today is a very special day for Catalonia. The two parliamentary groups that had independence as the main point on their September 27th election manifesto hold 72 out of the 135 seats in the Parliament of Catalonia which is holding its first ordinary plenary session today. They are jointly presenting a draft resolution, which will presumably be adopted later this morning, which announces the start of the 18-month period leading to independence. Unless the text is amended at the last minute it will instruct the Government to write to the Spanish government and to the European Union to offer to negotiate this process in good spirit. 

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