The Catalan Parliament has voted overwhelmingly in favour of a motion to declare independence from Spain.
Deputies backed the motion, which reads “We shall constitute the Catalan Republic as an independent, and sovereign, democratic and social state of law”, by 70 votes to 10, in response to the Madrid government moving to throw regional leaders out of office and impose direct rule.
The European Union, which previously endorsed the Spanish authorities’ attempts to shut down the referendum which precipitated the current crisis through violence as “proportionate use of force”, have already backed the hardline stance of Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy.
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