Catalonia, the Majestic and Afterwards
16/10/2015
Recent weeks have witnessed a public debate on the political and social impact that the so-called ‘Majestic Pact’, signed in 1996, had in the strengthening of Catalan independentism. The document delivers some data regarding the electoral evolution in Catalonia and the attitudes of the Catalans and of the rest of Spaniards, as they figure in the databases of the Spanish centre for sociological research (CIS). The evidence shows that there was no significant strengthening of nationalist parties or attitudes in the 1996-2003 period. On the contrary. Such a strengthening begins to be recorded after that period.