Catalonia’s parliament votes for independence
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Catalonia’s parliament has voted overwhelmingly in favour of independence from Spain , Financial Times reported.
Deputies in the regional assembly backed the motion for secession by 70 to 10 in a momentous decision that escalates the biggest political crisis since Spain’s return to democracy in the 1970s.
The motion read: “We shall constitute the Catalan Republic as an independent, and sovereign, democratic and social state of law.”
The result was greeted with jubilation by pro-independence supporters who had gathered outside the parliament in Barcelona.
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