AFP / Yahoo News: Two million defiant Catalans vote on breakaway from Spain (Regardless of the issues here, such movements will likely break out all over the European ethnic world as their national governments become ever more utopian globalist and continue pumping demographically genocidal numbers of Third World peoples into their midst.)

Two million defiant Catalans vote on breakaway from Spain


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Barcelona (AFP) - Two million Catalans turned out Sunday to vote on independence from Spain in a symbolic ballot, defying challenges from the Spanish government.

Catalonia's vice-president Joana Ortega told reporters that 1,977,531 people had voted across the region between 9:00 am and 6:00 pm (1200 GMT), two hours before polls closed.

Ortega could not give a turnout rate since there was no formal electoral roll, but Catalan authorities said 5.4 million people were eligible to vote overall.

But Justice Minister Rafael Catala dismissed the vote, which was staged by volunteers, as "fruitless and useless".

In one of Spain's richest but most indebted regions, a long-standing yearning for independence has swelled over recent years as recession and political corruption scandals have shaken Spain. ...

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