Catalans Likely to Keep Disobedience Civil

Posted: October 29th, 2017

By Marc Gafarot

Marc Gafarot is an international relations and public affairs consultant. He has worked in the field of International Processes of Secession and International Cooperation at CIDOB. As a journalist and political commentator, he has worked from London for Bloomberg LP, in Latin America for Summit Communications and served as a Parliamentary Adviser at the European Parliament in Brussels and Strasbourg. Gafarot has also worked from Barcelona as head of International Relations for Fundació CATmón and for the English-language magazine, Catalan International View.

The Cipher Brief asked Marc Gafarot, a public affairs consultant and specialist in secessionist movements who is based in Barcelona, to comment after Spain’s central government fired Catalonia’s president Carles Puigdemont on Friday, dissolving the parliament and government for declaring independence, and setting new elections for December. Puigdemont’s government had held an unsanctioned Oct. 1^st referendum that was declared illegal under Spanish law.

TCB’s Kaitlin Lavinder started by asking what the ousted Catalan politicians will do.

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