What the current elections in Spain will mean for our germans and germanes in the Catalan countries?
It will most likely go badly and mean we lose many rights: language/cultural rights, LGBTQIA+, women's, working class rights, sex ed in schools... This will happen for sure if there's a PP+Vox win, but to be fair it won't be much different for us with a PSOE win (PSOE is also very Spanish nationalist, pro-police torturing dissidents, pro-monarchy, pro-capitalism, etc, they're the ones who created the GAL and who keep sending secret police and illegal surveillance to investigate Catalan independentist movement and related leftist movements like the housing movement).
Many independentists are refusing to vote this time, because they see that no parties can actually apply independentist/leftist policies from inside the system (despite how Junts and CUP are really trying, but find their work frustrated by the judicial system or by what's legally limited). As a result of this and the difference in how we should react to Spain's repression, the independence movement is quite distracted with in-fighting, while the right-wing is united as always.
Despite what we feel about the parties and indirect/bourgeois democracy limited by this fascist state (Spain's laws are not great and separation of powers is non-existant), it's very dangerous to hand the control of laws, police, army, education, and all public office to those who want us dead. This "punishment abstention" will have consequences, and they won't be the consequences that those who chose not to vote or to vote null would have liked.
The only good news is that BILDU seems to be going up a lot. That's good work from our friends in the Basque Country.
