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Catalonia’s disputed referendum result

Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont has said the region has won the right to break away from Spain, following a referendum marred by clashes and banned by Spain’s Constitutional Court


“Do you want Catalonia to become an independent state in the form of a republic?”

Turnout: 42.3%
YES 90%
NO 7.8%
Void, blank ballots 2.2%


SPAIN
CATALONIA
ANDORRA
FRANCE
PORTUGAL
Barcelona
Carles Puigdemont
Madrid

Source: Generalitat de Catalunya
Picture: Associated Press