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This is the blog of a group of Catalans from Berlin who also want to join to the demonstration of the Catalan people in Barcelona on Saturday July 10. This demonstration is both a protest against the modification that Spanish Constitutional Court has done of the current Catalan Statute of Autonomy, and a demand of the self-determination right of the Catalan nation.

Let us mention that the Catalan Statute of Autonomy had undergone all the steps stated in the Constitution for its approval. The first draft was firstly agreed and approved by the Catalan Parliament in September 2005 with the 90% of the total votes. In November, the Spanish Parliament accepted the text and debated its contents. The draft was modified and approved, firstly by the Constitutional Committee of the Spanish Parliament and secondly by the plenary of the Parliament. Only the PP party voted against the Catalan Statute of Autonomy. Finally, it was approved by the Catalan people who were asked to vote on it in a referendum on June 2006.

Moreover, during these 4 years, the Constitutional Court has been in the centre of deep and wide controversies, as the political parties were playing with its composition with the complicity of the Court’s members. One of the initial 12 members of the Court was retired, another one died, and the mandates of 4 of them had to expire in November 2007.