Saturday, October 7, 2017

Over 90% of the Catalans supported the province's independence

About 90.18 percent of voters in the referendum voted on the independence of Catalonia on October 1, Reuters reports, referring to the final census results released by the government of the Spanish Autonomous Region.
Against the separation with Madrid, 7.83 percent of respondents in the referendum declared themselves. A total of 2.28 million people out of a total of 5.3 million voted in Catalonia. Catalan leader Carles Puccademon will address the regional parliament on Tuesday in connection with "the current political situation," a government spokesman said. The plenary session is scheduled to begin at 18:00 local time, despite the ban on the Spanish Constitutional Court. The Spanish Interior Ministry has meanwhile decided to extend the stay of Civil Guard and National Police officers in Catalonia by October 18, according to BTA. Force troops were sent to the Autonomous Region as part of an operation to solve the separatist problem. Initially, they were supposed to stay in Catalonia until October 11, but the leadership of the police and the Civil Guard now consider it necessary to extend their deployment in the area, the newspaper said. The Spanish Interior Ministry sent about 6,000 guards and police officers to Catalunya as part of the operation. There are still 6,000 people on a regular basis.

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