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October 3rd, 2017 
Awake Goy At least 400 polling stations were shut down by the Spanish police and several ballot boxes full of votes were removed, according to the Catalan government spokesperson. None of these votes have been counted, as it is not clear how many were lost in total.
Criticising the abusive actions of the Spanish police, Puigdemont said: “Spain has written a shameful page in its history with Catalonia today.” Far too often, Puigdemont pointed out, “repression and violence have been the response of the State to Catalan aspirations.”
Police fulfilled their duty
Making clear his government does not recognize the vote, Spanish president Mariano Rajoy blamed Sunday’s events on the Catalan government. “The Spanish National police and the Guardia Civil have fulfilled their duty and with justice on their said,” he said.
For Puigdemont, “the situation that has developed in Catalonia due to intransigence and repression, due to a total denial of reality, due to the hostility that comes from the democratic demands made by citizens of this country, is no longer an internal matter.”
An European matter
Indeed, it is a European matter as far as the Catalan president is concerned. “I make a direct appeal to Europe. We Catalans have won the right to be respected in Europe. The EU can no longer look the other way,” Puigdemont said. “We are European citizens and our rights and freedoms are being violated.”
Strike on Oct 3
As the Catalan government plans to go ahead with independence despite opposition from Spanish institutions, the political tension is likely to further escalate in the coming days.
Catalan pro-independence organizations called citizens to go on a general strike on October 3 to protest against the violent crackdown on the independence referendum.
Source Article from https://popularresistance.org/catalan-parliament-to-declare-independence-following-ves-victory/
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