BARCELONA — Artur Mas, the president of Catalonia, was hoping to lead Spain's economically most powerful region toward secession from the rest of the country.
BARCELONA, Spain — Hundreds of thousands of people waved flags and joined hands across Catalonia on Wednesday, in a show of popular force that Catalan leaders hope will revive their push for Spain's economically most powerful region to secede from the rest of the country.
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BARCELONA, Spain — Voters in Catalonia delivered victory to separatist parties in a regional election on Sunday, raising the likelihood that Spain's most powerful economic region will hold an independence referendum that Madrid has vowed to block.
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MADRID — The depth of Catalonia's challenge to Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy should become clear on Sunday, when an early election could help determine whether Spain's most powerful economic region eventually splits from the rest of the country.
Presenting the biggest domestic political challenge, the leader of Catalonia, Spain's most powerful economic region, called an early election for Nov. 25 that could turn into an unofficial referendum on whether to split from the rest of the country.
The two main separatist parties in Catalonia signed an agreement on Wednesday to form a government, as well as allow the 7.5 million citizens of what is Spain's most powerful economic region to vote in 2014 on whether to secede.
BARCELONA, Spain — Artur Mas, the leader of Catalonia, has a clear message for Madrid: He is serious about his threat to let the people of Spain's most economically powerful region decide for themselves in a referendum whether they should remain a part of Spain.
Spain's prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, already under pressure from his European counterparts to clean up Spain's banks and public finances, failed on Thursday to ease what has recently turned into his biggest domestic political challenge: a separatist push by the country's most economically powerful region, Catalonia.
