Spain's northeastern region of Catalonia is holding a symbolic referendum Sunday on independence.
Spain's Constitutional Court on Tuesday ordered Catalonia to suspend the vote. However, Catalonia is pushing ahead with an informal vote with thousands of volunteers manning the voting stations.
Opinion polls indicate as many as 80 percent of the 7.5 million people in the region want more autonomy from Spain, with about 50 percent in favor of complete independence.
Catalonia is one of Spain's wealthiest regions. Its long-standing desire for independence has been fueled more recently by the country's deep recession over the past few years.Material for this report came from AP and Reuters.
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9/11/14
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Spain's Constitutional Court on Tuesday ordered Catalonia to suspend the vote. However, Catalonia is pushing ahead with an informal vote with thousands of volunteers manning the voting stations.
Opinion polls indicate as many as 80 percent of the 7.5 million people in the region want more autonomy from Spain, with about 50 percent in favor of complete independence.
Catalonia is one of Spain's wealthiest regions. Its long-standing desire for independence has been fueled more recently by the country's deep recession over the past few years.Material for this report came from AP and Reuters.
[voanews.com]
9/11/14
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Hundreds of thousands of Catalans are expected to back independence from Spain on Nov. 9 in a symbolic referendum on secession that they hope will propel the issue further despite opposition from Madrid....
ReplyDeleteThe "consultation of citizens" in the wealthy northeastern region follows a legal block by the central government against a more formal, albeit still non-binding ballot which regional leaders had been pushing for.
"If they don't understand us, they should respect us and each of us go on their separate way," said Angels Costa, a 52-year-old shopkeeper as she stood waiting in a short queue to vote in Barcelona.
"We would have liked to have been a federal state but that is no longer possible. They've trampled on us too much." .............http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/catalan-independence-hopes-high-in-symbolic-vote-on-split-from-spain.aspx?pageID=238&nID=74085&NewsCatID=351
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Un juez ve 'desproporcionado' que se retiren las urnas del 9-N ...
ReplyDeleteTres magistrados de Barcelona, Badalona y Tarragona han rechazado este domingo por la tarde dictar medidas cautelares para detener la consulta alternativa por la independencia que se está celebrando en Cataluña.
Uno de ellos, Gonzalo de Dios Hoyo en su condición de magistrado de guardia en Barcelona, ha rechazado retirar urnas como medida cautelar reclamada por UPyD en una denuncia al considerar que sería una medida que "no guarda proporcionalidad". Un criterio que comparte con los fiscales de guardia que ejercen este domingo en Cataluña y los cuales en sus informes no han decretado ninguna medida cautelar.
A lo largo de la mañana se han recibido un total de seis denuncias, tres de las cuales se han presentado en el juzgado de guardia de Barcelona en nombre de UPyD, la xenófoba Plataforma per Catalunya y un denunciante particular.
Otras dos se han presentado en Tarragona, donde el juez se ha limitado a dar traslado a la Fiscalía y ha pedido a los Mossos d'Esquadra que identifiquen los locales públicos donde se han producido las votaciones. Sin embargo, como en el caso de Barcelona, también ha rechazado retirar las urnas.
El Juzgado de Guardia de Mollet del Vallès también inadmitió una denuncia presentada por el partido Falange Española y Plataforma.cat ya que "no queda debidamente justificada la perpetración del delito denunciado". En su resolución el magistrado indica que comparte "el criterio expresado por la Fiscalía, que serían en todo caso desproporcionadas en función a la protección de los bienes jurídicos que presuntamente se manifiestan vulnerados".......................http://www.elmundo.es/cataluna/2014/11/09/545f1a1dca47413e438b456b.html
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