An unprecedented challenge to Spain’s territorial unity will take place on Sunday as the Catalan regional government stages an independence referendum.
It comes despite Spanish government efforts to stop the vote, which have included Catalan government officials arrested, referendum websites blocked and millions of ballot papers seized.
Today there are several reports on social media of Spanish police firing rubber bullets at people queuing to vote in the referendum.
The Catalan government has predicted that 60% of Catalonia’s 5.3 million eligible voters will head to the polls in defiance of the Spanish government declaring the vote illegal.
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