CATALONIA - Majority of Catalans want independence from Spain - poll — RT News
Almost 60 percent of Catalans support independence from Spain according to the latest poll, which also revealed that Catalans have no fear about their future as a sovereign European state.
The results of the new survey by the Omnibus Opinion Studies Centre have shown that out of 1,600 samples taken from the Catalan population, 87.6 percent would accept the outcome of the November 9 referendum, while 9.1 percent would not.
In addition, 58.8 percent of Catalans strongly agree or somewhat agree that Catalonia should have its own state, while 31.9 percent answered that they are fairly opposed or totally opposed to living in an independent country.
Catalonian
separatist supporters wave estelada flags in front of Catalonia's
Parliament before the approval of a regional consultation law in
Barcelona (Reuters / Albert Gea)
