Voters in 166 pro-independence towns and villages in Catalonia voted overwhelmingly for independence from the Spanish state Sunday 13 December, but only 27 percent of those who could vote actually did so. The organizers of the symbolic, non-binding vote played up the result in Spain’s wealthiest region, which boasts its own language, culture, and the city of Barcelona.
Participation fell far short of the 49.4 percent in the 2006 referendum on the statute governing relations between the central government and Catalonia, already largely autonomous.
Posted by Sean Ecker on 14 December 2009 at 11:04 | permalink
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News story, GenevaLunch, 14 December 2009.
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Tags: Barcelona, Catalan, Catalonia, cote, independence, referendum, Spain
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