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Official flag of Tabarnia - Image by Ivan Sache, 17 March 2018
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Tabarnia is a new autonomous community proposed by Barcelona is not
Catalonia / Plataforma por la Autonom’a de Barcelona (website), a citizens' organization that held its Constituent Assembly on 24 September 2012 in Barcelona.
The organization argues that Catalonia is made of two parts clearly
differentiated on economical, linguistic, identity, population and
social criteria. Rural Catalonia is presented as "mainly independentist,
based on local economy, and obsessed by the Catalan identity and hostile
to the Spanish language". What would be Tabarnia is presented as "a
cosmopolitan Catalonia, proudly bilingual, urban, multicultural and
intensely connected with the rest of Spain and Europe".
Tabarnia (Tarragona + Barcelona) is defined as "Barcelona, its
metropolitan area, and the strip of land that connects if to Tarragona".
The "President-in-exile" of Tabarnia is the playwright and actor Albert
Boadella (b. 1943), founder in 1962 of the Els Joglars company. Known
for his political satires and parodies during the Francoist regime,
Boadella subsequently criticized the Catalan nationalism, then led by
Jordi Pujol (b. 1930; President of the Catalonian Government from 1980
to 2003), in the show Operació Ubú. Calls to boycott of his shows from nationalist circles forced him to "exile" to Madrid, therefore his title
of "President-in-exile", which is also a straightforward reference to
Carles Puigdemont (b. 1962), former President of the Catalonian
Government (2016-2017), still exiled in Belgium.
Knowing Boadella's background, Tabarnia seems to have emerged as a
provocative joke and a satire of Catalan nationalism, before gaining
some popular adhesion.
Ivan Sache, 17 March 2018
This proposed autonomous community is also a satirical parody of the Catalan independence movement and a movement against the independence of Catalonia from Spain. They advocated and claimed that they would seek a referendum to create a new Spanish
autonomous community that would decide to remain part of Spain in case
of a hypothetical Catalan independence.
It would encompass the current Catalan comarques of Tarragona, Baix
Camp, Baix Penedès, Alt Penedès, Garraf, Baix Llobregat, Barcelona,
Vallès Oriental, Vallès Occidental and Maresme. Proponents believe the
area somewhat corresponds to the historic County of Barcelona, although its
extent is considerably different. This proposal derived from a
proposal created in 2011.
Currently it is not known who is in charge of the so-called Tabarnia
movement and who invented the original concept of Tabarnia. Jaumé
Vives and Albert Boadella have self-proclaimed to be the spokesman and
president of Tabarnia. Miquel Martínez presents itself as the
representative of Platform for Tabarnia, but in the association
registry of Catalonia only exists Associació Somos Tabarnia (website). At a Spain level two other platforms
exist: Coordinadora por Tabarnia (website) and Asamblea Nacional de Tabarnia.
[Wikipedia]
Esteban Rivera, 1 June 2018
The official flag of Tabarnia (photo,
photo,
photo,
photo), which was presented in January 2018, is derived from the flag of Barcelona, the Catalan 2nd and 3rd quarters being replaced by the wavy stripes from the flag of Tarragona. The coat of arms of Tabarnia is added in the center
[Dolça Catalunya, 9 January 2016]
The arms of Tabarnia feature St. Georges, Barcelona's patron saint, holding a
Tabarnia shield and peacefully taming the independentist dragon. The
Latin motto "Acta est fabula" (The play is over) invited in ancient Rome
the spectators to leave the theater at the end of the show; here it is
an invitation to the dragon to go home and to the "independentist
theater" to stop.
[El Periódico, 9 January 2018]
Ivan Sache, 17 March 2018
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Flag of Tabarnia - Image by Ivan Sache, 17 March 2018
The official flag of Tabarnia (photo, photo, photo, photo, photo, photo) was derived from the flag, without the coat of arms, which was originally used - and is still widely used - by the supporters of Tabarnia in street demonstrations.
Ivan Sache, 17 March 2018
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Blue and white flag of Tabarnia - Image by Ivan Sache, 17 March 2018
Supporters of the RCD Espanyol football club redesigned the flag with the Tarragona quarters in blue and white (photo), probably as a reply to the blue and white Estelada, redesigned by independentist supporters.
Ivan Sache, 17 March 2018
