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Spain to sue Catalan leader, officials over independence vote

EU Times — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 11:20:01 +0000

Spain’s chief prosecutor is set to launch a lawsuit against Catalonia’s President Artur Mas as well as other local officials over the autonomous region’s recent symbolic referendum on independence from Spain. Eduardo Torres-Dulce is expected to investigate the alleged charges of disobedience and provocation brought against Mas, Catalan Deputy First Minister Joana Ortega, and Education […]

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Catalan self-determination impossible

EU Times — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 22:15:24 +0000

Spain’s Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria says the Catalan region cannot be granted the right to self-determination. The Spanish official made the remarks in parliament on Tuesday, a day after more than two million people took part in an independence vote in Catalonia. “The right to self-determination that you demand is not possible, […]

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Polls close in Catalonia symbolic ballot on independence

EU Times — Sun, 09 Nov 2014 21:13:57 +0000

Polls have closed in Catalonia where people have held a symbolic independence vote despite the Spanish government’s opposition. According to the regional Catalan government, almost two million people took part in the independence polls, which opened at 9 a.m. local time (0800 GMT) and closed at 8 p.m. (1900 GMT) on Sunday. The regional government […]

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Catalans gear up for symbolic independence vote Sunday defying Madrid's ban

EU Times — Sun, 09 Nov 2014 20:45:33 +0000

Catalans are holding a massive, symbolic regional independence vote this weekend, in defiance of the Spanish government’s ban. The polls look set to draw upward of 1.5 million people, to whom the vote is now about freedom of expression. Artur Mas, the Catalan president, has remained defiant in the face of the exceedingly draconian bans […]

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Catalonia pushes ahead with independence vote

EU Times — Sat, 04 Oct 2014 20:14:17 +0000

The Catalan government says it will push ahead with its scheduled plan to hold an independence referendum, despite a Spanish Constitutional Court order to suspend the vote. Catalan President Artur Mas established a seven-member committee late on Thursday to supervise the referendum on Catalonia’s independence from Spain which is due to be held on November […]

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Madrid court suspends Catalonia's Independence Referendum

EU Times — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 13:25:53 +0000

Spain’s Constitutional Court decided Monday that Catalonia has no right to vote for its independence. The independence referendum planned by Catalonia’s President for this November was unanimously suspended by 12 judges. Speaking in a televised address after an emergency cabinet meeting Monday, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said he regretted Catalonia’s president Artur Mas’s decision […]

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Catalan parliament approves November independence vote

EU Times — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 20:57:59 +0000

The Catalan parliament has passed a law giving its regional president the power to carry out a non-binding consultation vote on secession from Spain. Catalan nationalists believe this law enables them to hold the long-awaited independence referendum. On Friday, the Catalan parliament voted in favor of the new law, with 106 MPs supporting it and […]

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Catalan independence vote will go ahead: Mas

EU Times — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 19:56:03 +0000

Catalan President Artur Mas says a vote on the region’s independence from Spain will be “impossible” to stop even if Madrid is against the referendum. “If the Catalan population wants to vote on its future, it’s practically impossible to stop that forever,” Mas said in an interview on Wednesday. He said the Spanish government should […]

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Catalonia to vote on independence, defy Madrid

EU Times — Sat, 14 Dec 2013 22:38:15 +0000

The Catalan regional parliament has set November next year for a referendum on the Spanish province’s independence. The government in Madrid blandly said the vote won’t happen, but activists wonder how it might be stopped. Catalonia’s four pro-independence parties, which hold a majority in the regional parliament, announced Thursday that the rich industrial Spanish province […]

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Spain's Catalan nationalists win elections in local parliament

EU Times — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 21:58:44 +0000

Spain’s Catalan nationalist party Convergencia I Union (CiU) led by Artur Mas won the elections in the Catalan Parliament on Sunday, but failed to win an absolute majority that it expects to govern alone. CiU secured 50 seats of the 135-seat local parliament in the elections, a setback from its previous 62 seats, which appeared […]

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