The journalist Arturo San Agustín interviewed Javier Cercas for his book When Ours Fucked Up. Catalonia-Spain: Chronicle of the door slamming (Peninsula) and he defined the process as "a centaur born from a cross between the economic crisis and sentimental idealism and the ill-informed goodwill of many good people." It is a position as accurate as it is benign because it omits an uncomfortable reality: sovereignty is not the wrong choice of the Catalan people, but rather the representation of the majority of its citizens . In other words: the majority of Catalans cannot be excused from their insistence when it comes to lowering the level at the polls

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