Catalan independence

Voters head on Sunday in Catalonia to the offices of a symbolic vote for a referendum to express their position on the issue of the independence of this province from Spain. Voters in Catalonia were invited to express their position on the issue of the independence of the Spanish province on Sunday in an unprecedented vote no legal value to him is organized by the executive power in the region, despite the objection of Madrid. Journalists said that the voting stations opened at nine o'clock local time. Two questions printed on millions of ballots are "Do you want to Catalonia become a state?" If yes, "Do you want to be independent?", To which this ballot has symbolic value, but not as a binding results in Scotland on September 18 / September Therefore, the region risked chairman of the National Governor Artur Mas exposure to prosecution for his call for "civil disobedience" in the name of "freedom of expression" and "freedom of religion" for the people of Catalonia. The Constitutional Court suspended twice and at the request of Madrid, a vote is taken in this regard. So will organize alternative vote by the executive branch, with the volunteers, without census nor electoral commission. Theoretically, you could make about 5.4 million voters out of 7.5 million inhabitants of Catalonia (Spain has a population of 47 million people), including ballots foreigners and young people who are over the age of sixteen. However, this figure will not be practically achieved because the opponents of the disengagement will not vote. According to the most optimistic estimates about two million potential voters vote only. Recent opinion polls indicate that half the population of this rich and mountainous in the north-east coastal region of Spain want independence. There are twenty percent oppose the idea, while one-third of the population still undecided and some prefer a broader autonomy. And this is a day they call the "Nine-to" (ie, the ninth of November) a new chapter in a series of disagreements with very sharp Madrid since 2010. In that year, the Constitutional Court, which turned to the right-wing Popular Party led by Mariano Rajoy has adjusted "put" walked in Catalonia since 2006 to transfer the broad powers granted to the region and "put the nation". The decision canceled a large part of these gains while morale was sinking low in the county's population crisis. And then demanded that the region, which represents twenty percent of the gross domestic product of Spain did not accept the idea of receiving sums of money less than those paid by the state, "the Charter of the tax," but the New Madrid failed to meet the request.