Description
Added on the 14/02/2021 13:41:09 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Barcelona (Spain), Feb 14 (EFE), (Camera: EFE).- More than 2,700 polling stations opened across Catalonia, which is holding its regional election on Sunday.FOOTAGE OF A POLLING STATION IN BARCELONA.
Madrid residents vote during the last hour of voting in regional elections, which was also open to people either quarantining or who have tested positive for Covid-19. The election is expected to deliver a comfortable victory to the city's hardline leader of the right-wing Popular Party (PP), Isabel Diaz Ayuso, who has soared in prominence for stubbornly resisting virus restrictions. IMAGES
Brussels (Belgium), Feb 24 (EFE), (Camera: Leo Rodríguez).- Catalonia's former regional president Carles Puigdemont said on Wednesday that he still hopes to obtain the immunity after the EU lawmakers voted to recommend lifting the immunity of three Catalan MEPs wanted by Spain for sedition after a failed 2017 independence bid.FOOTAGE AND SOUNDBITES OF CARLES PUIGDEMONT, CATALONIA'S FORMER REGIONAL LEADER, ON WEDNESDAY IN BRUSSELS:"We have never given up. Not even in a plenary session although we know what is going on. And we know that there is a political move so the Spanish standards are brought into the European Parliament too."
Catalans vote in a special polling station for quarantining voters, including those with Covid-19, as the region holds tight general elections. Madrid hopes the vote will see the unseating of the region's ruling separatists more than three years after a failed bid to break away from Spain. IMAGES
Barcelona, Sep 11 (EFE).- Thousands celebrated Catalonia's National Day on Friday amid the pandemic and political uncertainty due to the possible disqualification of the head of the Catalan government Quim Torra.FOOTAGE OF BARCELONA ON FRIDAY.