A few items from Span over the weekend on Catalonia:
These via Reuters:
- Thousands protest in Barcelona against Catalan independence
- crowd estimated by local police to number 350,000
- Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Saturday he would not rule out removing Catalonia's government and calling a fresh local election if it claimed independence
and
- Catalonia will apply a referendum law, which calls for a declaration of independence if a referendum shows a majority in favor, Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont
- "The declaration of independence, that we don't call a 'unilateral' declaration of independence, is foreseen in the referendum law as an application of the results. We will apply what the law says,"
Speculation on how this will all work out welcome in the comments!
