Spain military hunt Catalan govt domicile amid referendum row
Over 70 percent of Catalans wish a authorised referendum on autonomy to settle a issue. PHOTO: REUTERS
BARCELONA: Spain’s Guardia Civil military on Wednesday searched several domicile in Barcelona of Catalonia’s informal government, a Catalan supervision spokesperson said.
The operation comes amid ascent tensions as Catalan leaders press forward with preparations for an autonomy referendum on Oct 1 notwithstanding Madrid’s anathema and a justice statute deeming it illegal.
Huge throng to convene for Catalan autonomy before vote
Police were acid a Catalan government’s offices of mercantile affairs, unfamiliar family and a presidency, a orator said.
The operation comes a day after military seized a trove of papers associated to a autonomy referendum from a offices of private smoothness association Unipost in a Catalan city of Terrasa.
Pro-separatist parties prisoner 47.6 percent of a opinion in a Sep 2015 informal choosing in Catalonia billed as a substitute opinion on independence, giving them a slight infancy of 72 seats in a 135-seat Catalan parliament.
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But polls uncover Catalonia’s roughly 7.5 million residents are divided on independence.
A consult consecrated by a informal supervision in Jul showed 49.4 percent of Catalans were opposite autonomy while 41.1 percent were in favour.
Over 70 percent of Catalans wish a authorised referendum on autonomy to settle a issue.
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