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

There's no alternative to Catalan independence.

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.

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.

We show each day that we are prepared to act as an independence state... Not just in exceptional moments.

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