Catalan politics emancipated from the Spanish politics on September 27, 2015. Since then, we've acted with a sovereign mentality, political sovereignty.

We're seeing a reaction - and people taking to the streets with pots and pans - in areas where the independence movement isn't supposed to exist. People have to choose between one model and another. Everyone in Catalonia has realised that not taking part means ratifying the politics of repression of the Spanish government.

A lot of people are angry about the democratic abuses that have been committed by the Spanish government.

The alternative to independence is decline, because the relationship with the Spanish state is not good; everyone knows that.

We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.

Whoever doesn't want to hear our voice needs to see a political otolaryngologist.