we are on the street in a really peaceful manner and this will continue
going until Sunday and what we want basically is to vote in the first of October.
There's people from all wings that are supporting the independence. The
pro-independence and the pro-referendum movement have always shown to be very
peaceful. We are we are being civically disobedient
but we are not being violent.
The important thing and what we are protesting against is the the repression
like the political repression we've been suffering lately. All the institutions
have been taken over by the central government, and their bank accounts have
been frozen, so for example the university's bank accounts have been
frozen. And also politicians and activists have been detained.
They don't come from a democratic tradition. Their negativity and their and their
and their hostility towards us is creating more and more support towards
independence. They shouldn't think that force will work to silence the people
that they should be representing. They have brought here in in Catalonia a huge
number of officers to control us and to and try to repress us in the one of
October.
We speak a different language. Historically the Spanish government has
been neglecting and mistreating Catalonia so people is really tired and
they just want to go out of here the reasons for independence are not
only nationalistic they're also socio-economic they have a lot of cases
of corruption and I don't believe in the in this government I don't believe in
Spain now. There's a 50 percent of youth unemployment and things like that so in
some way independence is for some people our way to start anew and to have a
second chance. Will we have now the opportunity of building a different
country. I will be happy if it's just and being like a real Republic a real social
democratic republic with real social politics. They just keep saying that the
referendum is anti-democratic because it's illegal, but that's that's the
opposite meaning of democracy. Democracy is the power of
the people to adapt a law to the will of the people, not the other way around.
Because what did what they what they want is to demonstrate they have power
over us, but I believe that they will not be able to stop us, because we are
millions. There are there are millions of people that want to vote. I'm worried
about what Spanish police forces are capable of to do. Honestly I don't think
it has to it's possible like a peaceful ending of this thing and it's quite sad
but it's the way it has become because they pushed up with so many cops in so
many repression when when you reach this point it's no coming back. Even if I'm
worried I'm super determined that we will vote. We are supposed to do
everything we can yes, we want the freedom of our people. We want democracy.
We want only to vote. We want to do it the referendum, only to not the crime.