Help, democracy in danger!

You are an individual living in a European country, like Germany, the UK, Sweden, the Netherlands... I am an individual living in a European stateless nation, named Catalonia (Catalunya), today part of a state named Spain, a member of the European Union, allegedly a modern settled democracy. This state I live in is a likely destination for your holidays: sun, beaches, history, nice weather, open-minded people... this is very probably the image you have of this country. But there is something about it you probably do not know: Franco's ghost is still around, 35 years after his death.
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I assume you know who was Franco, but just in case... he was a military man who caused a civil war back in 1936, which went on for three years, after which a dictatorship headed by Franco himself obliged those who had supported the democraticly elected government leave the country. Thousands were killed during and after the armed conflict.
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In the days when the uprising was being organized, during the first semester of 1936, a far-right political party, named Falange Española de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista (FE de las JONS), was in close contact with... general Franco, who would end up orchestrating the coup d'état. This happened over 73 years ago.
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Today, a Spanish judge granted permission to the heirs of this far-right political party, FE de las JONS, to demonstrate on Sunday in a Catalan town, Arenys de Munt. They will be there to counteract a previously scheduled political event: a referendum. What kind of a referendum? The democraticly elected town council of Arenys de Munt decided, on June 4, to support a private initiative to ask the people of this town the following question:
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"Do you agree on Catalonia to become an independent, democratic and social state, in the frame of the European Union?"
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The questioning was to be a non-binding one, but still a way to know how do people in Arenys de Munt, and by extension in many other parts of Catalonia, feel about this issue.
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Today, on the same day a judge granted permission to the heirs of that far-right political party, FE de las JONS, to demonstrate on Sunday in a Catalan town, another judge prohibited the democraticly elected town hall of Arenys de Munt support the referendum. In other words, the Spanish justice has banned a decision taken by a democratic institution and, at the same time, blessed a demonstr

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