CATALONIA -- President of Catalonia calls independence referendum - VilaWeb
The President of the Generalitat, Artur Mas, today signed a decree
calling a referendum on independence from Spain to be held on 9
November. The decree would allow the Catalan people to cast a vote on
whether they wish to secede from Spain and become and independent state.
Specifically, the referendum would be putting a double question to a
vote: ‘Do you want Catalonia to be a state?’ Voters who answer ‘yes’ to
this question would then have the option of voting on another question:
‘Do you want this state to be independent?’
The coming days will
be decisive in determining whether Catalans are given the chance to vote
on 9 November on the matter of independence from Spain, a referendum
that the Spanish government wants to prevent.
