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If social issues are taking a back seat it is largely because secessionists, including many ERC members, argue that until Catalonia is independent there is no point in pushing for social change because Madrid simply uses the courts to overrule the Catalan parliament when it makes decisions that are not to its liking.

“Catalonia voted to guarantee that the poorest families wouldn’t have to go without heat and electricity and the constitutional court overruled it,” says Rosa Marcús, a schoolteacher in Sitges.
“It approved imposing taxes on empty properties and turning them over to public housing and it was overruled.
It voted to ban fracking and it was overruled, it banned bullfighting, the same thing happened. There’s a long list.”