公投前和公投以来没有任何加泰罗尼亚精英提供一种明确的解释，告诉外界为什么必须建立独立的加泰罗尼亚国家或者对这个即将建立的国家进行描述。
At no point before or since the independence referendum have any of them offered an articulate explanation of why a separate Catalan state is necessary or what it would look like.