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- The crisis first flared in October 2017, when a banned independence referendum was met with a heavy police crackdown. Madrid imposed direct rule on the region shortly after. It is the country's biggest political crisis since democracy was restored in 1975, after the death of military dictator General Francisco Franco.
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An independence referendum was held on 1 October 2017 in the Spanish autonomous community of Catalonia, passed by the Parliament of Catalonia as the Law on the Referendum on Self-determination of Catalonia and called by the Generalitat de Catalunya.
Oct 2, 2017 · Spain is facing political turmoil this week following a contested independence referendum in the region of Catalonia, which descended into violence and left hundreds injured.
Purpose. Unilateral declaration of independence of Catalonia as a sovereign republic from Spain. The Catalan declaration of independence ( Catalan: Declaració d'independència de Catalunya; Spanish: Declaración de Independencia de Cataluña) was a resolution that was passed by the Parliament of Catalonia on 27 October 2017.
On 8 October 2017, Societat Civil Catalana gathered over a million people according to the organizers and the Spanish government and 350,000 people according to Barcelona police, in a rally against Catalan independence. To date this event was the largest pro-Constitution and anti-independence demonstration in the history of Catalonia.
Oct 1, 2022 · Catalonia's 2017 independence referendum: a timeline. Nearly 2.3 million ballots were cast on October 1, 2017, but the day was marred by brutal police violence leaving over 1,000 injured. October 1, 2017 is arguably the most significant date yet in the story of Catalonia's independence movement.
Oct 18, 2019 · Catalonia's pro-independence leaders then went ahead with a full referendum on 1 October 2017, which was also declared illegal by Spain's constitutional court. Organisers said 90% of voters...
Oct 1, 2017 · October 1, 2017. In 2010 Spain’s Constitutional Court issued a landmark ruling that inadvertently laid the ground for Sunday’s independence referendum in Catalonia.
