Citizen complaint to the UN, the EP, the European Commission, the European Council, and the OSCE Source: Catalan Civil society organisations and political parties Date: 05.11.14.

1. CITIZEN COMPLAINT TO THE UNITED NATIONS, THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT,
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL, AND THE OSCE
The undersigned, European and Catalan citizens, make our complaint signed by the
elected officials of the Parliament of Catalonia, the European Parliament, the Spanish
Parliament and the Councils of Catalonia, with Spain because it violates the right of the
Catalan people to decide their political future and prevents them from exercising
democracy by any means of consultation internationally recognized.
In this regard, WE AFFIRM that:
1. The people of Catalonia have, for reasons of democratic legitimacy, political and legal
sovereignty, and as such, the right to decide for themselves their political future is
recognized.
2. Catalan people, directly or through their political representatives, have repeatedly
expressed their willingness to decide their political future.
3. The Parliament and the Government of Catalonia have followed all the steps necessary
to fulfill the mandate to exercise the democratic right to decide, derived from the elections
on 25 November 2012.
4. The Spanish position is contrary to international practice in proper democratic countries,
as in the case of Canada with Quebec and the UK with Scotland.
That is why we inform the United Nations, the European Parliament, the European
Commission, the European Council, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe that:
1. From Catalonia the legal channels in Spain to find a political settlement to allow a
referendum or consultation about the political future of Catalonia, including the option of
independence, have been exhausted.
2. There is a complete lack of political will by the Spanish government to establish
frameworks for dialogue and negotiation, in addition to the persistent refusal to permit the
exercise of the right to decide by the Catalan people.
3. The accumulation of difficulties and negativity by the highest political and judicial
institutions of Spain, who refuse constantly all the proposals that have been made from
Catalonia, have been aggravated with a strong political and democratic regression, clearly
aimed to weaken Catalan self-government. This regression is expressed today in total
clarity in all political, jurisdictional, financial, social, cultural and linguistic aspects.
4. We are entitled to take all actions necessary in a peaceful and democratic manner, to
ascertain the majority will of the people of Catalonia regarding their political future and,
subsequently, to act accordingly by following this democratic mandate.
That is why, under the democratic principles underlying the Founding Charter of the United
Nations and the subsequent international agreements and treaties that guarantee the rights
of peoples to decide their political future, we request to the United Nations, the European
Parliament, the European Commission, the European Council, and the OSCE, to carry out
the actions necessary to ensure that the Catalan people are able to decide, democratically,
their political future.
Barcelona, November 2014.