CATALANS VOTE IN STRAW POLL ON INDEPENDENCE FROM SPAIN (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)
by STANews 
, Sunday, November 09, 2014, 12:37
BARCELONA — Defying legal and political objections from Madrid, more than one million Catalans took part on Sunday in a straw poll on independence that the region’s politicians have presented as a prelude to breaking away from the rest of Spain.
By 1 p.m., just over 1.14 million citizens had voted, according to preliminary estimates of the turnout released by the regional government of Catalonia. Polling stations close at 8 p.m.
Even after being ordered last week by the Constitutional Court of Spain to suspend the vote, the regional government of Catalonia has allowed the straw poll. It has insisted that such a court ban could not override the right of Catalonia’s 7.5 million citizens, who include 5.4 million voters, to decide whether to secede from the rest of Spain.
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