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Spanish Premier Rejects Catalonia Independence, 700 Injured in Clashes

Sunday 1 October 2017
Spanish Premier Rejects Catalonia Independence, 700 Injured in Clashes

Mariano Rajoy

Spain’s PM say "no referendum" took place in the country after polling stations closed in Sunday’s controversial Catalonia independence referendum.

Alwaght- Spain's Prime Minister has declared that "no referendum" took place in the country after polling stations closed in Sunday's controversial Catalonia independence referendum.

Claiming that the majority of people in Catalonia did not want to participate in the independence poll, Mariano Rajoy said those citizens had obeyed the law.

He also defended the actions of Spanish law enforcement officers, saying police "performed their duty" in Catalonia.

Catalan authorities earlier announced that more than 760 people were injured in the police crackdown on voters in the poll deemed illegal by Madrid.

Rajoy said the voting has damaged the "coexistence" of people in the country and has "only served to sow division."

In Barcelona, Rajoy's speech was broadcast on a big screen in one of the city squares, with people reacting with apparent anger to the PM's statements.

Spanish police clash with pro-independence protesters in Catalonia

Earlier in the day, Barcelona's mayor Ada Colau called on the Spanish PM to resign.

Speaking on local TV, she accused Rajoy of being a "coward," adding that the prime minister had "crossed all the red lines with the police actions against normal people, old people, families who were defending their fundamental rights."

The Spanish government insists the Catalonia referendum is illegal and the country’s Constitutional Court had ordered the vote suspended.

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