As you wish. Catalonia has never been independent or a kingdom, and so has no right of self-determination. I made my point and I probably won't answer again to this thread so you will not have to worry about me anymore.
I'm trying to avoid challenging any of the weird semi-francoist Spanish unionist stuff you've said because other people have dealt with it very well (it's complete bollocks)
This is the reason because I am answering you, though I was not going to do so because I am tired of your history-fiction. Everytime I say I am against the separatists in Catalonia some of them call me francoist, like if I were talking to programmed robots. Am I semi-francoist because of saying that "there is only one nation: Spain"? Well, I was not the first one to say it. The President of the Second Spanish Republic of the Spanish left-wing that fought against Franco in the exile said it. And he said he would let Franco win before letting any separatism in Spain. Was he semi-francoist also?
all I'll ask is do you have any evidence of a kind of concrete definition of "nation" in international law? Indeed, any kind of example of a right to self determination enshrined in international law? I remember looking for that during our own independence referendum and as far as I could tell it was all very vague, nothing concrete at all. It was quite problematic for some of our arguments.
I will quote the entire phrase of the Spanish President of the Second Republic that fought Franco, so you do not think that I am francoist, and so that you may believe the most anti-francoist person:
"I'm not making war against Franco to let a provincial separatism appear in Barcelona (...) There is only one nation: Spain! (...) Before consenting nationalist campaigns that leads to dismemberments that in no way I admit, I would give way to Franco with no other condition than that of getting rid of the Germans and the Italians"
Juan Negrin Spanish President of the Second Republic of the left. collected by Julian Zugazogoitia in his memoirs.The contemporary international law is based on the principle of the obligation to respect the territorial integrity of the existing sovereign states. The precise circumstances in which international law recognizes the right to self-determination do not apply to Spain, as they are not applicable to many other democratic states that have separatist movements.
As for the national law anybody can consult the national constitutions of any other nation and see how they do not recognize the right to self-determination and unilateral secession.
Given these requirements of law that preserve the territorial integrity, the radical nationalism argues as follows: if international law recognizes the principle of self-determination by persons suffering from colonial situation, villages annexed by conquest or occupation and oppressed peoples by massive and flagrant violation of their rights, it is necessary to convert Spain in just that: a colonial and totalitarian country, that only by force kept some of his fellow citizens as prisoners. Only if the international society is persuaded that is the true reality of Spain, self-determination according to law may (in the opinion of the separatists) be achieved. A project that, in case of succeding, involve the historical, political, economic and cultural impoverishment of both the amputated Spain and the separated part. But the fact is that self-determination of peoples is a principle applied to a very different context to the case of Catalonia.