The Nation´S Referendum for Independence (The South of Sudan´S Instance- Catalonia´S Instance)

Comparative Political Research

Abstract

The experiences of South Sudan and Catalonia are very important experience around the world of self-search and translation of the gap between two different people who are unable to adapt and communicate in living together within the boundaries of a particular political community, where people translate their rights to self-determination through the referendum process, which is considered one of the finest means of expression. on the general will.

Regardless of the success of the first experiment in Southern Sudan and the failure of the second, but this phenomenon cannot be assessed with success or failure as much as it can be viewed according to the course of these experiences and all the circumstances surrounding them. The lesson is to show that the general intention and will crowned by the political behavior of the majority of citizens living in that geographical area as evidence of a real problem with inability to integrate and shattered feelings of citizenship.

So, the two experiences give us lessons that the true will of the peoples may be latent and unable to appear to the public because the political system rejects the idea altogether, while there are experiences that appear to the public and find light, but it is very likely that they clash with political forces that impose their coercion and prevent them from implementing this will stemming from someone the basic pillars of peoples' rights to self-determination under various arguments, including unity (artificial) or unified force, social-political (formal) integration, and others ..

That is why the prevailing saying remains that the will of the people takes precedence over all other will as it is the source of authority and the basis for obedience to it