Guardiola calls on the mobilization to vote in the referendum even if the State does not want
Former FC Barcelona coach and Manchester City coach Josep Guardiola has called on the Catalans to vote in the referendum on Sunday to decide their future, saying they will do so "even if the state does not want to."
"We are here to make it clear that next October 1 we will vote in a referendum to decide our future. We will vote, even if the Spanish State does not want it, "he told thousands of people who attended the event organized in Barcelona by the ANC, Òmnium and the AMI to support the referendum with the slogan 'Referendum is Democracy'.
Guardiola has been in charge of reading the central manifesto of the act, in which he also asks that the Catalans support the challenge of the Government: "We must know that each and every one of us will be by our side".
"Now that the voice of democracy wants to be kidnapped, more than ever we will go to the polls and defend with all our strength democracy and our representatives," he stressed.
He has also called for help from the international community by appealing to all democrats in Europe and the world to support the defense of rights they feel threatened in Catalonia, such as the right to freedom of expression and the right to vote, and To deal with "the abuses of an authoritarian state".
The technician of the Barça recalled that the Generalitat has tried to agree a referendum with the central government on 18 occasions and the answer "has always been no, ignoring the support of 80% of the population and belittling the strong majority with which the Parliament.
"We have no other way out. The only possible response is to vote, "said Guardiola, who sees the Catalans as victims of a state that has put in place a political persecution, in its view, unworthy of a European democracy of the 21st century.
For Guardiola, this persecution has consisted of actions such as "those of a minister of the interior who conspires to destroy health, political police units that produce false evidence against the rulers, and disqualification and prosecution" against the president of the Generalitat, Carles Puigdemont, for wanting to put urns.
He has also warned of attempts to "end the Catalan school model, the pillar of social cohesion, and the blocking of investments" in infrastructure.
"Today the Spanish State persecutes even the political debate. A threat that extends to all democrats ", including the members of the Government and the Parliament, and therefore also the members of the Bureau, civil service workers and employers.
According to Guardiola, this is "unprecedented and democratically unsustainable", and therefore believes that this can only be solved with more democracy.
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