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“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.
Spanish Third Deputy Prime Minister and Communist candidate Yolanda Diaz casts her vote for the general election. Far-left party Podemos - a coalition partner since 2020 - has been absorbed this year by Sumar, a new formation led by the highly popular labour minister. IMAGES
Spain's socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez casts his vote in the regional elections of Madrid Community. IMAGES
A former basketball player once dubbed "Mr Handsome" for his boyish good looks, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is a political survivor whose rollercoaster career has played out to the backdrop of chronic instability. He casts his vote as polls open. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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