{"id":123786,"date":"2017-10-14T07:34:36","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T11:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=123786"},"modified":"2017-10-14T07:34:36","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T11:34:36","slug":"catalan-separatist-urges-unity-as-pressure-builds-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/14\/catalan-separatist-urges-unity-as-pressure-builds-in-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Catalan separatist urges unity as pressure builds in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_123787\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123787\" style=\"width: 792px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Oriol_Junqueras_2012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-123787\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Oriol_Junqueras_2012.jpg\" alt=\"Oriol Junqueras, Catalonia's regional vice-president and head of the Republican Left party, says Saturday \u201cwe must preserve the unity that is necessary to go all the way on this path to a republic.\u201d (Photo By Converg\u00e8ncia Democr\u00e0tica de Catalunya, CC BY 2.0)\" width=\"792\" height=\"968\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Oriol_Junqueras_2012.jpg 792w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Oriol_Junqueras_2012-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Oriol_Junqueras_2012-768x939.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-123787\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oriol Junqueras, Catalonia&#8217;s regional vice-president and head of the Republican Left party, says Saturday \u201cwe must preserve the unity that is necessary to go all the way on this path to a republic.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=35641624\">(Photo By Converg\u00e8ncia Democr\u00e0tica de Catalunya, CC BY 2.0)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BARCELONA, Spain \u2014 One of Catalonia&#8217;s top separatist leaders pushing for a break from Spain has called for unity as disputes over strategy threaten to split the secessionists.<\/p>\n<p>Oriol Junqueras, Catalonia&#8217;s regional vice-president and head of the Republican Left party, says Saturday \u201cwe must preserve the unity that is necessary to go all the way on this path to a republic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The leaders of the prosperous northeastern region of 7.5 million people want to leave Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Fissures have appeared among Catalan separatists ever since regional President Carles Puigdemont announced Tuesday that he was delaying an outright declaration of independence \u201cfor a few weeks\u201d to give talks with Spain&#8217;s central government in Madrid a chance.<\/p>\n<p>The far-left party CUP and a grassroots secessionist group have both asked Puigdemont not to wait any longer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BARCELONA, Spain \u2014 One of Catalonia&#8217;s top separatist leaders pushing for a break from Spain has called for unity as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":123787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[27754,4478,27755],"class_list":["post-123786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-catalan-separatist","tag-spain","tag-unity","mauthors-joseph-wilson","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}