Catalonia Cancels Independence Referendum

World » EU | October 14, 2014, Tuesday // 08:38
Bulgaria: Catalonia Cancels Independence Referendum Candidatura d`Unitat Popular (CUP) members protest with a banner reading `Disobey` in Barcelona against the preventive suspension of the referendum after the Constitutional Court accepted to process the appeals by Spanish government on 29 September 2014.

Catalonia’s regional government has decided to call off the November referendum on independence from Spain.

Following a meeting between pro-independence parties and the regional government, officials said on Monday that they have decided that the referendum, planned for November 9, cannot be carried out.

"The (regional) government has determined that the consultation can't take place," Joan Herrera of the provincial political party, Initiative for Catalonia, told reporters.

Reports say the cancellation is due to a lack of legal guarantees.

An alternative proposal is to be announced by Catalonia's nationalist government on Tuesday.

On September 29, Spain’s constitutional court suspended Catalonia’s referendum on independence after a request from Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.

On September 30, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Barcelona, vowing to disobey Spain’s blocking of Catalonia’s independence referendum.

The Catalan government said on October 3 that it would push ahead with its scheduled plan to hold the referendum, despite the court order to suspend the vote.

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