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While it was known that the Supreme Court will condemn by sedition nine of the 12 independentist leaders prosecuted for organizing the 1-O, thousands of constitutionalist Catalans -10,000, according to the Urban Guard- celebrated the National Fiesta through the streets of Barcelona and demanded compliance of the penalties imposed on the leaders of the process .

Under the motto For Hispanicness, Catalonia adds , the commemorative march of October 12 ran through the center of the Catalan capital, crossing the Gràcia promenade and culminating in the Plaza de Cataluña, from where, defended the president of Catalan Civil Society , Fernando Sánchez, "Catalan constitutionalism has been splitting its face for the unity of Spain for years."

In addition to the main constitutional entity of Catalonia, they supported the demonstration, convened by the Spain and Catalans , PP, Ciudadanos and Vox collective, not the PSC, which again avoided contributing to the image of unity that constitutionalism managed to offer on 8 October 2017, in the big demonstration against the illegal referendum, which brought together a million people in Barcelona.

Hence, the Socialists became, again - as happened on Monday for their abstention in the motion of censure against Quim Torra - the target of criticism of the other formations present at the event.

Inés Arrimadas and Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo monopolized the leading role at the head of the march, in what constituted a duel to position their respective parties as the guarantors of coexistence in Catalonia before the general elections of 10-N, in which They will repeat as candidates for Barcelona.

The leader of Citizens demanded that the president of the acting Government and candidate of the PSOE, Pedro Sánchez, not "pardon" the separatist leaders "whatever the sentence" and also claimed that it does not allow the granting of "prison privileges" to comply Your possible conviction.

"The ruling will mark the end of the separatist process. In Spain the laws are enforced. In Spain the rule of law governs," added the spokeswoman for the popular in Congress, who brandished "Spanish continuity against any attempt to end our freedom and status of free and equal citizens before the law "and claimed" to set foot to active and militant constitutionalism ".

Álvarez de Toledo demanded that constitutionalism end "four decades of apathy and abdication" and carry out a strategy "sustained over time", not a mere "emergency reaction at specific moments of crisis, as in October 2017" and The PSC affected its "grave responsibility" in the current situation of Catalan politics: "If the PSC had been a force committed to constitutionalism, this would never have happened."

Vox, represented by his deputy for Barcelona, ​​Ignacio Garriga, diagnosed a "state of rebellion in the Generalitat" and requested the arrest of Torra and the suspension of Catalan autonomy.

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