Synergia

2019/12/19

64 injured in a new raid of the Spanish police in Barcelona against Catalan minority

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Spanish police once again brutally charged against Catalan peaceful protesters at the doors of the Barça`s stadium just as a game went to half time on December 18th. Spanish Officers also shoot to the peaceful demonstrators with foam bullets.In the stadium 93,000 people were protesting throwing inflatable balls onto the pitch and once again chanted for independence while holding up the Tsunami Democràtic banners reading 'Spain, sit and talk.' The incident caused a momentary pause in play. Two big banners were hung from the stands, reading 'freedom' and 'Spain, sit and talk'.

In total, 10 were arrested following the game, and 64 people were treated for medical injuries caused by a carnage of the brutal Spanish police.

Spanish prosecutor to seek the ban of 2 Galician national movements

a 12/17/2019

Causa Galiza (galician Cause) and Ceivar (To Free) are persecuted by their ideas in Spain. The Spanish Attorney seeks to ban both of them. In the same writing the colonial prosectors wants to jail a dozen of Galician people between 4 and 12 years. All in all 102 years of jail for pro independence activists. Causa Galiza considers that the only aim of the Spanish state is to criminalize the Galician national movements with disproportionate punishments.

The oldest Corsican political prisoner has been freed

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Charles Santoni, sentenced in 1999 to 28 years in prison for the murder of a Raid police officer in 1996 in Aiacciu, has been free on Tuesday. The man served his sentence "without a day's permission, (..) bracelet, semi, or conditional. Without political concession from the state, without amnesty, "said the French state.

Charles Santoni should be released in July 2019, after having served his sentence for murder, but his detention was lengthened by a new sentence to six months in prison, in October 2017, by the Bastia Court of Appeal for death threats on a counselor from the penitentiary service of integration and probation of the penitentiary center of Borgo (Haute-Corse).

Charles Santoni had been sentenced on November 25, 1999 by the Paris Special Assize Court to 28 years' imprisonment for the murder of a Raid police officer and two attempted murders of Raid police officers, on April 16, 1996 in Aiacciu. He had opened fire with his friend Jean-Luc Orsoni, who died in the shooting, on an unmarked police car whose occupants they allegedly took as killers, in the midst of conflict between the movements of the ex-FLNC (Corsican National Liberation Front).

He had been, on March 17, 2011, the first Corsican detainee incarcerated on the continent to be transferred to Borgo prison, following the commitments of the Minister of Justice, Michel Mercier, in favor of bringing together island prisoners and their relatives. .

Femu a Corsica 1st General Assembly

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The party held its first General Assembly or cunsulta generale in Corti on December 15th. It began with a tribute to Edmond Simeoni who died on December 14th a year ago. This first year of the party was that of structuring, legal and financial procedures, the creation of a website ... The "project" commission built a social project which will have to be mature in 2021. The period 2015-2021 was a obstacle course: a heavy legacy, a major election a year, the merger of communities and a defiant state on almost all issues. 2020-2021 must be a period of liberation of energies and municipal elections are an essential issue.", said Jean-Félix Acquaviva.

Gilles Simeoni, Corsica's President, son of Edmond and Femu a Corsica leader, closed the meeting where the centrist party did a compromise to fight for the next local and regional elections.

Scottish National Party sees huge gains after UK election

a 12/14/2019

The pro-independence Scottish National Party (SNP) took 48 seats out of 59 Scottish constituencies, emboldening the party's demands for a second independence referendum next year, and putting Scotland on a constitutional collision course with Johnson's Conservative administration.

Nicola Sturgeon, SNP leader and Scotland's first minister, who has now led her party to three consecutive UK general election victories in Scotland, as well as victory in the 2016 Scottish Parliament election, stood on a platform of opposing Britain's forthcoming withdrawal from the European Union - otherwise known as Brexit- and advocating a poll on Scotland's right to choose its own constitutional future by 2020.

Sturgeon's party gained 13 seats from the 2017 UK general election but was eight seats shy of the 56 it took in 2015. She said the result represented a "renewed, refreshed and strengthened" mandate for a second vote on Scottish statehood.
"It's the second-best performance they've ever had at a Westminster election - and second-biggest mandate," Gerry Hassan, a senior research fellow in contemporary Scottish history at Dundee University, told Al Jazeera. "It provides an opportunity for the SNP and a window to progress and advance towards an independence referendum."

The SNP had 1,242,372 votes and a 45 %. In 2017 it took 977,569 and 36,9 %. In the UK the turnout was 68,8 % in 2017 and 67,3 % in 2019. In Scotland the turnout was 68,1 %. growing from 66,5 two years ago.

For the first time, Northern Ireland has more Irish nationalist than British nationalist MPs

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Irish Republican and national parties in Northern Ireland announced an electoral pact of sorts in November to win the DUP seats. The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) said it it won't run in Northern Belfast, East Belfast, or North Down; while Sinn Féin will stand aside in South Belfast, East Belfast, and North Down.

The result on December 12th was clear: For the first time, Northern Ireland has more Irish nationalist than British nationalist MPs. The DUP has emerged as the biggest casualty of the election.
The DUP now has 8 MPs, down from 10 MPs in the last election. Sinn Féin stay the same on 7, a result they’ll be happy with. The SDLP now has two MPs, and the Alliance Party has one in Lady Sylvia Hermon’s former constituency.

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald, whose party enjoyed a major coup in North Belfast against Nigel Dodds as well as a crushing defeat in Foyle, put it best at around 4am on Friday morning.
“As it turns out, nobody is going to stop Boris. As we had said, unfortunately no Irish MPs can stop Brexit,” Mary Lou McDonald said.

Finucane

McCallion

Sinn Féin's jubilation over John Finucane successfully unseating DUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds in North Belfast was tempered by the loss of Elisha McCallion in Foyle, the party said. The republican party managed to maintain the same number of seats (seven) as it managed to secure in the 2017 election. However, its vote share across Northern Ireland dropped from 29,5 to 22,8 % while SDLP grow from 11,8 to 14,9 %. Aontú won a 1,2 %. All together is a 38,9 %. In 2017 it was a 41,3 %.

Sinn Féin obtained 181,853 votes, SDLP 118,737 and Aontú 9,814. In 2017 SF won 238.915 and SDLP 95,419 losing all tits 3 MPs while SF just won 3 (from 4 to 7).

Mebyon Kernow wins a 3 %

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In 2017 Mebyon Kernow did not contest the General Election. This time Mebyon Kernow decided to target its resources into a single constituency: St Austell and Newquay seat. Dick Cole obtained 1.660 votes in a single constituency meaning a 3 %. The seat was won by the Conservatives by a clear majority of 56 %.

Mebyon Kernow is described as a left-of-centre political party in Cornwall. It's main policy focuses on creating a National Assembly for Cornwall, and argues for the same rights to devolution as England, Scotland and Wales. The party also wants to maintain the county's own distinct identity, language and heritage.

Plaid Cymru retains 4 seats

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Wales elected its first three female Conservative MPs on December 12th, as Plaid Cymru maintained its four MPs, but Labour lost ground. Of the 40 Welsh seats, the Tories now hold 14, a new high for them since 1983, with a matching new low for Labour, although they remained the biggest party in the country on 14. This year, turnout was down to 66.6 per cent. The new Plaid MPs are from the next constituencies:

Ceredigion: Ben Lake - Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales
Arfon: Hywel Williams - Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales
Carmarthen East and Dinefwr: Jonathan Edwards - Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales
Dwyfor Meirionnydd: Liz Saville Roberts - Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales

Plaid won a 9,9 % meaning 153,265 while in 2017 it was a 10,4 % meaning 164,466.

EHE stage a protest against the fine to a man for speaking Basque

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Euskal Herrian Euskaraz (EHE) today held a protest in Bilbo in solidarity of Arkaitz Zarraga. He is a Basque man who in December 2018 spoke in Basque with a policeman. He has been fined with 900 € for defending his language rights. Today the Spanish autonomus police threatened the demonstrators with a show of force.

EHE, Euskal Herrian Euskaraz (Basque in the Basque Country, EHE) association was launched in Durango, Bizkaia under the slogan “Euskararik gabe, Euskal Herririk ez” (Without Basque there is no Basque Country) on November 4, 1979. It is an association that defends the right to live in Basque in the Basque Country. Today, its principal goal is to achieve a Basque-speaking Basque Country made up of polyglot or multilingual people.

Plaid Cymru: Back a second referendum then campaign for Remain

a 12/11/2019

The Leader of Plaid Cymru Adam Price has confirmed his party will stand on policy of stopping Brexit by supporting a second referendum with ‘Remain’ on the ballot.
Adam Price said that Plaid Cymru, as Wales’ leading party of Remain, is “united” in its aim to ensure Wales remains a member of the European Union and that the best way to do that is to campaign to give the decision back to the people in a referendum.
The Plaid Cymru Leader said he did not believe any form of Brexit would be good for Wales as it would ‘devastate’ the livelihoods of ‘thousands of people’ in Wales and see a dramatic 5.5% fall in Wales’ economic growth as a consequence of being taken out of the Single Market and Customs Union.
He added that the Prime Minister’s Brexit deal, which would create a hard border in the Irish Sea, would be a ‘disaster’ for Welsh port towns such as Holyhead and Fishguard.