Spanish government says Catalonia must end referendum ‘farce’

Spain’s central government is demanding Sunday that Catalonia’s president Carles Puigdemont call off an independence referendum in the region which police have intervened to stop, dismissing the vote as a “farce.”

A woman celebrates outside a polling station after casting her vote in Barcelona, on October 01, 2017, in a referendum on independence for Catalonia banned by Madrid. (AFP PHOTO / Josep LAGO)

“Puigdemont and his team are solely responsible for all that has happened today and for all that can happen if they do not put an end to this farce,” Madrid’s representative in Catalonia Enric Millo told a news conference.

— AFP

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