Why Catalonia wants the independence? Spain has 17 autonomous communities, and one of them is Catalonia. Catalonia like other communities has their own language, culture, traditions etc. different from Spain. Always in Catalonia had been a population of people that wanted the independence, but always was a minority, but why has increased so much over all these years? Catalonia like the Basque Country, has always been one of the wealthiest parts of Spain, and in 2006 The Parlament of Catalonia voted the “Estaut” a set of laws that allowed to Catalonia to have more power of decision by himself as other communities have it like Vasc Country. This pack of laws was rejected by the Spanish government, and this was a hard blow for Catalans. Over the years the situation has not changed. And the people have been more and more angry about Spanish’s passivity on this issue, making massive demonstrations every year. Finally, last year Catalans decided to make a referendum if they wanted to leave the country or not and make their own. This escalated by riots in the street by the police forces due to the entry into the schools and taking out the ballot boxes and putting in jail one part of the government elected by the Catalans, because the referendum’s illegitimacy Nowadays the situation is the same, the people are more tired of all this situation and government’s passivity about this issue continues. I am encouraging you if you want to know more about this the show, BBC our World "Crisis in Catalonia" of the last day.