SPAIN SEEKS COURT BAN ON CATALONIA INDEPENDENCE VOTE (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Monday, September 29, 2014, 12:59

Spain's government has asked the country's constitutional court to declare Catalonia's planned independence referendum illegal.

PM Mariano Rajoy told reporters that the vote was not "compatible with the Spanish constitution".

The head of the north-eastern Spanish region signed a decree on Saturday calling for a vote on 9 November.

Hundreds of thousands of Catalans joined a protest in Barcelona recently, calling for their right to vote.

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