The Latest: 'Yes' campaign for Catalan secession kicks off

Source: Associated Press


Updated 3:29 pm, Thursday, September 14, 2017

MADRID (AP) — . . .

10:00 p.m.

The head of Catalonia's government has kicked off a two-week "yes" campaign for a referendum on independence from Spain by calling on the region's voters to cast ballots.

Spanish courts have suspended the referendum planned for Oct. 1 and the national government has vowed to stop it. There is no official "no" campaign because most of the opposition is snubbing the vote.

 
Regional President Carles Puigdemont addressed thousands filling an arena in the port town of Tarragona on Thursday night for the first campaign event.

Puigdemont said: "What kind of people do they think we Catalans are? In Catalonia, we are democrats."

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