Catalan pushes ahead with referendum
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THE leader of Catalonia has set up a panel to supervise a contested independence referendum next month, defying Spain’s central government which has gone to the courts to block the vote.
The president of the wealthy north-east region, Artur Mas, appointed a seven-strong committee to oversee the ballot on Thursday evening, the local government said.
It was the first official move to prepare for the planned November 9 vote on separation from Spain since the Constitutional Court agreed on Monday to review the legality of the referendum — effectively suspending the ballot.
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s People’s Party will appeal against the creation of the commission, the head of its Catalan division said. “Mas has lost his sense of responsibility, his sense of state and his common sense,” said Alicia Sanchez-Camacho.
Catalonia, with a population of 7.5 million people, its own language and accounting for a fifth of Spain’s economy, has long sought independence.
Madrid argues that any ballot on secession would be against Spain’s 1979 constitution.
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