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Podemos amends manifesto, includes explicit commitment to Catalan referendum

Left-wing party changes wording of original text · New version does not include reference to independence as option, rather speaks of "decision on the kind of territorial connection" with "rest of Spain"

 
L'apartat esmenat al programa de Podem.
L'apartat esmenat al programa de Podem.
Left-wing party Podemos today amended its December 20th Spanish legislative election manifesto and included an explicit commitment to hold a referendum in Catalonia. More specifically, Pablo Iglesias's party added a new paragraph to its proposal number 277, which now speaks of "promoting the call of a referendum in Catalonia with guarantees" so that citizens "are able to decide the kind of territorial connection" they wish with "the rest of Spain."

However, the wording does not explicitly mention independence as one of the would-be referendum's options.

Podemos's manifesto had initially only spoken of opening "a broad public debate on the recognition and ways of exercising the right to decide," and vows to "guarantee" the right of autonomous governments to hold non-binding votes on their relationship with the rest of Spain.

Keywords: Catalan process, Catalonia, election, Podemos, referendum, Spain