Opposition delays as Sánchez rushes through criminal reforms to please Catalan separatists

Republican Catalan Left (Esquerra) wants another referendum on the independence of Catalonia from Spain. Well, I say “another” but the first one was a sham vote, so it would be a first, if Sánchez somehow managed to get around the problem of Article 2 of the Spanish Constitution, the one that talks about the “unbreakable unity” of the nation, which is what Rajoy always argued was the core of the refusal last time: not even he as Prime Minister could allow it becuase the Constitution said “unbreakable unity” and that hadn’t been changed.