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Catalans begin voting in a decisive election that could mark a turning point for their region. It comes just two months after a failed secession bid triggered Spain's worst political crisis in decades. IMAGES
“We have won the right to an independent state, built as a republic,’ Catalan President Carles Puigdemont said in a statement in Barcelona on Sunday, following a disputed referendum on independence from Spain plagued by violence and protests. According to Catalan officials, 90% of voters backed independence from Spain. The Spanish government deemed the ballot illegal and Spanish police officers used force in an attempt to stop the vote.
"Today there was no referendum on self-determination in Catalonia," Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said in a speech just a matter of minutes after the polls closed on a Catalan referedum for independence from Spain. Rajoy was resolute in his stance that Spain is indivisible and that the referendum would not be recognised.
Catalonia’s leader Carles Puigdemont leads a protest outside the Generalitat in Barcelona, a day after Catalonia's regional government declared victory in a banned secession referendum, the results of which have been rejected by Madrid. IMAGES
Hundreds of pro-independence Catalans take part in a rally in Plaça de Catalunya after the referendum vote. IMAGES
Guatemalans go to the polls in a second round of presidential elections marked by the harassment of a surprise favourite, who has enthralled voters with his promises to end the rot of corruption. IMAGES
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