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Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont voting in 2015. New regional elections would be considered by the Spanish government as a return to legality. (Photo: president.cat)

Spain points at elections as exit to Catalan crisis

by Eric Maurice, Brussels, October 18, 2017, 2:22:27 PM
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Spanish political leaders have called on Catalan separatists to organise regional elections as a way to avoid emergency measures due to be taken on Thursday (19 October).

Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy gave Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont until Thursday at 10am to say whether or not he had declared the region's independence last week, when he signed a declaration ...

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Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont voting in 2015. New regional elections would be considered by the Spanish government as a return to legality. (Photo: president.cat)

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