LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING A HYPOTHETICAL UNILATERAL DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE BY CATALONIA: A LEGALLY UNFEASIBLE POLITICAL SCENARIO
Journal: Spanish Yearbook of International Law
Year: 2015

Catalonia cannot in any way be considered a subject in its own right with a purported 'right to decide' in the event of a hypothetical materialisation of a unilateral declaration of independence. And this cannot be so either on a domestic level or on an international one. Both the Spanish Constitution and international law directly oppose any type of secession by part of a territory of a State that, as is the case with Spain, is founded on the principles of democracy and the rule of law.