Catalonia approves funds to hold secession vote from Spain

  23 March 2017    Read: 679
Catalonia approves funds to hold secession vote from Spain
Pro-independence lawmakers in Spain’s powerful northeastern Catalonia region have approved a 2017 budget that guarantees funds for a referendum on secession despite warnings from legal advisers that such a vote would be unconstitutional.
The Catalan government pledges to hold a binding referendum by the end of September.

The budget vote Wednesday came as a fourth Catalan politician was temporarily banned from public office for disobeying Constitutional Court orders by helping organize a mock secession referendum in 2014. Polls consistently show the 7.5 million Catalans are evenly divided on independence, but a majority supports a referendum.

/AP/

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