SPAIN ORDERS A "MAS HUNT"

After being miserably defeated by pro-Independence lists, in last September 27th Catalan elections, Spain government intensifies his "Mas hunt", that is, Madrid is trying to strike down Mr. Artur Mas' political career as President of Catalonia.

President Mas was first elected in 2010 and reelected in 2012. Now he wants a third, and presumably last mandate, with a clear target: to set Catalonia on a path toward independence within 18 months. 

He was nominated as presidential candidate by JuntsxSi (JxS) list, a platform supported by the two main Catalan parties CDC (Convergència Democràtica), ERC (Esquerra Republicana), and also minor ones, civil society organisations and a number of independent candidates, among them celebrities (like former FCB player and coach and current Bayern Munich coach, Pep Guardiola).

Talks are under way between JxS, who won 62 out of 135 seats in the Parliament of Catalonia, and CUP (Candidatures d'Unitat Popular), a far left, also pro-independence party, who won 10 seats, Since CUP has been a vocal critic of pro-austerity policies implemented by former Mas Governments, the negotiation is not easy, but no one expects a failure, since consequences would be dramatical for the whole pro-independence movement.

Well, not exactly. 

Spain government, political parties, media and in general all the powers that be, have launch a huge, call it, Mas hunt, in order to avort any agreement between both lists, that will produce a clear pro-independence majority in the Parliament of Catalonia.

They want to stop all the process using a beheading tactic, well known in counterinsurgency theory. Once the leader is beheaded, the process, they assume, will be over. Political, legislative and judicial initiatives are launched in waves. And of course, a permanent campaign from well known spanish hate medias try to finish with Artur Mas public image. 

Opposition parties in the new Parliament, formed by defeated anti-independence parties, are pushing too to prevent Mr. Mas from being reelected, They ignore the popular will and try to obtain in the media, or the courts, what Catalan democracy denied to them: a democratic victory.

In fact the new Parliament will be the most democratic and the most pro-independence in history. And democracy will prevail.