User:WPancake/Tabarnia

Tabarnia is the name of a hypothetical Spanish autonomous community encompassing the current Catalan comarques of Tarragonés, Baix Camp, Baix Penedès, Alt Penedès, Garraf, Baix Llobregat, Barcelonès, Vallès Oriental, Vallès Occidental and Maresme. It is a proposal of the grassroots movement Barcelona is not Catalonia, formed as a reaction to the growing support for Catalan separatism.

Movement
Proponents of Tabarnia wish to distance themselves from the Catalan independence movement and reclaim the right of a number of territories near the area of Barcelona to constitute themselves as an autonomous community within Spain. In both the 2015 and 2017 Catalan regional elections, parties opposed to independence (mainly Citizens, PSC and PP) recieved a majority of votes in these areas. Supporters also allude to a series of fiscal arguments similar to those of Catalan separatism in regards to Spain. The term "Tabarnia" is a neologism based on the names of Tarragona and Barcelona, the two Catalan provinces where support for separatism is lower.

The movement has a basis in the Canadian Clarity Act, according to which regions opposed to Quebecois separatism are to remain within Canada in case of a secession, as well as Article 143 of the Spanish Constitution, which allows the formation of new autonomous communities.