{"id":1289,"date":"2014-11-09T07:32:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T12:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1289"},"modified":"2014-11-09T07:32:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T12:32:05","slug":"catalans-hope-for-big-turnout-in-symbolic-independence-vote-reuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1289","title":{"rendered":"Catalans hope for big turnout in symbolic independence vote | Reuters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/11\/08\/us-spain-catalonia-idUSKBN0IS0TI20141108\">Catalans hope for big turnout in symbolic independence vote | Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;\">(Reuters) &#8211; Hundreds of thousands of Catalans are expected to back independence from\u00a0<span class=\"mandelbrot_refrag\"><a class=\"mandelbrot_refrag\" style=\"color: #006e97; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/places\/spain?lc=int_mb_1001\" data-ls-seen=\"1\">Spain<\/a><\/span>\u00a0on Sunday in a symbolic referendum on secession being held across the northeastern region, despite opposition from Madrid.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;\">The &#8220;consultation of citizens&#8221; follows a legal block by the central government against a more formal, albeit still non-binding ballot which regional leaders had been pushing for.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;\">Pro-independence organizations have campaigned vigorously for a big turnout from the wealthy region&#8217;s 7.5 million people, and more than 40,000 volunteers will help set up informal voting stations on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;\">Pro-secession politicians hope a high level of support will prompt central government to sit down with them and negotiate more tax and political autonomy, or even convince Madrid to accept a full-blown independence referendum in the future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catalans hope for big turnout in symbolic independence vote | Reuters. (Reuters) &#8211; Hundreds of thousands of Catalans are expected to back independence from\u00a0Spain\u00a0on Sunday in a symbolic referendum on secession being held across the northeastern region, despite opposition from Madrid. The &#8220;consultation of citizens&#8221; follows a legal block by the central government against a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[117,968,743],"class_list":["post-1289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-catalonia","tag-independence","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1290,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions\/1290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}