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Showdown in Spain:

• mishtalk.com by Mish

In a move many people thought would never happen, the Catalan parliament approved a referendum that would allow a vote on the region's independence from Spain. The central government seeks intervention from the Constitutional Court. But short of invasion who is going to stop the vote?

The Spanish government has accused the Catalan Parliament of committing a "constitutional and democratic atrocity" by approving legislation to allow next month's bitterly disputed independence referendum to go ahead.

On Wednesday night, the region's ruling, pro-sovereignty coalition – which has a majority in the Catalan Parliament – managed to get the referendum law passed despite angry objections from opposition MPs, who complained that usual parliamentary procedures had been disregarded.

The legislation passed by 72 votes after 52 opposition MPs walked out of the chamber in Barcelona in protest at the end of an ill-tempered, 11-hour session.


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