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Puigdemont at Catalan independence rally

(29 Feb 2020) Tens of thousands of people who want the Catalonia region to become independent from Spain held a major rally Saturday across the border in Perpignan in southeastern France.   Holding the event in French territory allowed former Catalan regional president Carles Puigdemont to attend too. The European Parliament member is a fugitive from Spain after a failed push for Catalan independence in 2017.   The current Catalan president, Quim Torra, and other senior figures in the independence movement joined the event. Organizers said 150,000 people attended the rally. French police put the number at 110,000. Spain's constitution states that the country is indivisible, and the national government in Madrid has refused to countenance independence for Catalonia. Like other Spanish regions, Catalonia already has a large degree of financial, administrative and legislative autonomy. Polls show residents in the Spanish region of 7.5 million people are roughly evenly divided over the question of independence. Find out more about AP Archive: https://ift.tt/1CUvJt1 Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://ift.tt/2mlr9BZ Google+: https://plus.google.com/b/102011028589719587178/+APArchive​ Tumblr: https://aparchives.tumblr.com/​​ Instagram: https://ift.tt/2G5Qog8 You can license this story through AP Archive: https://ift.tt/38tdtaS
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