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Pro-independence flags in Barcelona. The ballot was initially scheduled for no later than 17 September 2017, a result of an election pledge made by pro-independence parties ahead of the 2015 Catalan election (during the previous legislature, the Catalan government had held a non-binding "citizen participation process" about the question).
There have been several Catalan independence referendums for determining the independence of Catalonia from Spain. 2017 Catalan independence referendum. Declaration of the Initiation of the Process of Independence of Catalonia; Law on the Referendum on Self-determination of Catalonia; 2014 Catalan self-determination referendum; Catalan ...
President Carles Puigdemont announces that Catalonia will hold a referendum on independence on October 1, 2017. The Law on the Referendum on Self-determination of Catalonia (Catalan: Llei del referèndum d'autodeterminació), is the name of a Catalan law that governs the holding of the Catalan independence referendum of 1 October 2017, a binding self-determination referendum on the ...
Spain's Catalonia region holds an election on Sunday with big implications for the Socialist-led national government and a pro-independence movement rumbling for a decade. ... Support for ...
Catalonia's regional Parliament declared independence from Spain on Friday in a disputed vote that is now likely to be declared illegal by Spain.
The declaration was passed with 72 votes in favor, 63 against and 0 abstentions in the Parliament of Catalonia. On 9 June 2017, the Catalan government announced the date of the independence referendum. It was declared illegal on 6 September 2017 and suspended by the Constitutional Court of Spain because it breached the Spanish Constitution of 1978.
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Government of Catalonia's refusal to abide by the Constitutional Court's suspension of the 2017 Catalan independence referendum. Catalan independence movement. Methods: Protests, demonstrations, civil disobedience, civil resistance, civil disorder (rioting, vandalism, occupations), general strikes: Resulted in: Direct rule enforced for six months.