Photo source: Fortune By Naveed Qazi | Editor, Globe Upfront S ince 2011, Catalonia has turned their bank holiday of September 2011 into a day of a national movement. For them, the September 11 holiday also memorialises the fall of Barcelona in the Spanish War of Succession in 1714. In the momentous year of 2011, some twenty thousand, mainly young, middle-class Spaniards, occupied the Puerta del Sol, in the heart of Madrid, angry at austerity among the politicians and bankers. Organised through social media and calling themselves los indignados (‘the indignant ones’), it was a new kind of protest movement, that would be imitated elsewhere, notably the Wall Street and Occupy London. Enjoying broad public support, the indignados shook Spain to the core. Within three years, they helped to spawn two new national political parties, Podemos on the Left, and Ciudadanos on the centre-right, further polarising and fragmenting the vote share. That’s why, since the 2015, no four general electi...