NATIONAL DAY OF CATALONIA

That this House congratulates all the people of Catalonia on the occasion of their National Day on 11 September 2012; notes that the mass demonstration in Barcelona on that special day will be under the single slogan Catalonia, the next state of Europe; further notes that multiple polls show that the majority of the Catalan people support the independence of their nation; welcomes the democratic and peaceful means they have adopted to promote and pursue this objective; and expresses concerns that the current Spanish constitution allows neither for the independence of part of its territory nor for the holding of a referendum on independence which would allow the people of Catalonia to decide democratically on the constitutional status of their nation.