The Council of Europe and the Catalan Secessionist Process: The Authoritarian Drift of the Radical Democratic Principle
Journal: Hague Journal on the Rule of Law
Year: 2024

Abstract This study shines a light on the problem of Catalan secessionist leaders’ abuse of the term “democracy”, an issue rarely discussed in the academic debate. The Catalan secessionist case has mainly been studied as a problem concerning the principle of territorial integrity and how it relates to the existence (or otherwise) of a right of self-determination for a substate entity. However, it is also a problem of democracy. For the entire secessionist process was based on a democratic princi