Catalan independence demonstration ready for National Day of Catalonia – Aristeguinoticias

So far we have enrolled over 130 thousand people for mobilization.

The Catalan National Assembly (independence citizen group) is preparing a massive rally to celebrate the National Day of Catalonia, northeastern Spain, to be held on September 11 .

In a statement, the company said that if a month to go holding have registered more than 130 thousand people to be mobilized in the Meridian Avenue Barcelona, ​​which will form a human tide that lead to the headquarters of the Catalan Parliament.

This year the Day (Catalan name as known to their national day every September 11) matches the home electoral campaigns ahead of the elections on 27 September, in which the ANC contained in a court bid for independence.

According to the organization, the Barcelona avenue is full of groups and sectors that will be “axes that should guide the debate on the construction of new country “, such as trade unionists, immigrants, farmers, teachers, gays, young feminists and disabled among others.

The events, as every year, will have its epicenter at 17:14 local time, in memory of the 11 September 1714 when the War of Succession in the Catalan lost the war Bourbon troops.

On the outside, the Day will be held in support of this initiative in cities like Amsterdam, New York, Berlin, Quito, and in coming days could add other cities in the world, according to the organization.

After this event, the ANC is added to the electoral campaign bid “Now is the time” in which participates with the ruler Democratic Convergence of Catalonia, Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya and the Omnium cultural group.

The coalition, in which the president of the Generalitat, Artur Mas, has proposed that participates if he won the elections so declare Catalan unilateral independence from Spain, within six to eight months.

(With information from Notimex )