Catalonia wants to decide its future

Last Thursday was a special day for Catalonia. At 14:00 pm(1) the President of the Generalitat de Catalunya, the highest representative of the Catalan people announced that next year, on November 9 (2), the Catalan people will be asked to decide if they want Catalonia to become a new state. In the case that they decide that they want to establish a new state (✓) they will be asked if they want that this state to be independent from Spain.

This act answers the request of more than two million people in Catalonia who asked for an enquiry, tired of Spanish political corruption and the unfair tax system that is suffocating the Catalan economy (✓) . (Catalonia has the third highest tax rates in the world!) In Catalonia there is the perception that our money goes to Spain to pay their parties and affairs (in Spain there are some airports without planes, and our politicians say that they were built for people to enjoy walking on the runways http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te-iN8wPRig).

The Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, has said that this poll will never take place, because it is unconstitutional, and that they will do everything necessary to avoid that people voicing their oppinion in a democratic way.

(1) as this is already in 24-hour time, we don't need to write am/pm. You could have written 2pm.

(2) alternatives: the ninth of November, 9 November, November the ninth

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A very good text and a very interesting topic. In the UK, we will have a vote next year on whether Scotland will become independent and I think many people in Catalonia will be watching the result closely!