But the Spanish authorities, which have ruled Sunday’s referendum illegal and unconstitutional, insist that the vote will not take place. “We’ve been playing card games, basketball, doing some painting and making music with tambourines.”Facebook Twitter Pinterest Pro-Spanish unity demonstrators march against the referendum in Barcelona on Saturday. Puigdemont has accused the Spanish authorities of exceeding “the limits of a respectable democracy” and dragging Spain back to the Franco era. I’m trying to obey the law, and there are a minority of Catalans who don’t want to vote, OK? “[It’s] a Spanish problem in which we can do little,” Antonio Tajani, the president of the European parliament, said on Friday.

Source: The Guardian September 30, 2017 23:48 UTC