{"id":425003,"date":"2017-10-04T09:11:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T09:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/10\/04\/catalan-referendum-regions-independence-in-matter-of-days\/"},"modified":"2017-10-04T09:11:47","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T09:11:47","slug":"catalan-referendum-regions-independence-in-matter-of-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/10\/04\/catalan-referendum-regions-independence-in-matter-of-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Catalan referendum: Region&#8217;s independence &#8216;in matter of days&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Catalonia will declare independence from Spain in a matter of days, the leader of the autonomous region has told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>In his first interview since Sunday\u2019s referendum, Carles Puigdemont said his government would \u201cact at the end of this week or the beginning of next\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Spain\u2019s King Felipe VI said organisers of the vote put themselves \u201coutside the law\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He said the situation in Spain was \u201cextremely serious\u201d, calling for unity.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of thousands of people across Catalonia have been protesting over Spanish police violence during the vote, during which nearly 900 people were hurt.<\/p>\n<p>During the vote, 33 police officers were also injured, local medical officials said.<\/p>\n<p>In the BBC interview, Catalonia\u2019s President Carles Puigdemont said his government would \u201cact at the end of this week or the beginning of next\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>When asked what he would do if the Spanish government were to intervene and take control of Catalonia\u2019s government, Mr Puigdemont said it would be \u201can error which changes everything\u201d.<span style=\"text-transform: initial;\">Mr Puigdemont said there was currently no contact between the government in Madrid and his devolved administration.<\/span><span style=\"text-transform: initial;\">He disagreed with the European Commission\u2019s statement on Monday that events in Catalonia were an internal issue for Spain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-transform: initial;\">He was speaking shortly before the king\u2019s speech.<\/span><span style=\"text-transform: initial;\">In his televised address to the nation, the king said the Catalan leaders who organised the referendum showed their \u201cdisrespect to the powers of the state\u201d.<\/span><span style=\"text-transform: initial;\">\u201cThey have broken the democratic principles of the rule of law.<\/span><span style=\"text-transform: initial;\">\u201cToday, the Catalan society is fractured,\u201d the king said, warning that the poll could put at risk the economy of the wealthy north-eastern region and the whole of Spain.<\/span><span style=\"text-transform: initial;\">But he stressed that Spain \u201cwill overcome difficult times\u201d.<\/span><span style=\"text-transform: initial;\">The central government has described the referendum as illegal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n<div class=\"bsac bsac-clearfix bsac-post-bottom bsac-float-center bsac-align-center bsac-column-1\">\n<div id=\"bsac-268370-461950666\" class=\"bsac-container bsac-type-image \" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/WPAdBlock\" data-adid=\"268370\" data-type=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bsac-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/starrwoman_posts.jpg\" alt=\"Starr Woman \u2013 Inside Posts\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catalonia will declare independence from Spain in a matter of days, the leader of the autonomous region has told the BBC. In his first interview since Sunday\u2019s referendum, Carles Puigdemont said his government would \u201cact at the end of this week or the beginning of next\u201d. Meanwhile, Spain\u2019s King Felipe VI said organisers of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":424251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Catalan referendum: Region&#039;s independence &#039;in matter of days&#039; - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/10\/04\/catalan-referendum-regions-independence-in-matter-of-days\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Catalan referendum: Region&#039;s independence &#039;in matter of days&#039; - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Catalonia will declare independence from Spain in a matter of days, the leader of the autonomous region has told the BBC. 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