{"id":56722,"date":"2015-02-26T17:21:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T15:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=56722"},"modified":"2015-02-26T17:21:01","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T15:21:01","slug":"spanish-court-rules-catalonia-independence-vote-illegal-56722","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/spanish-court-rules-catalonia-independence-vote-illegal-56722\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish court rules Catalonia independence vote illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56727\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Spanish-court-rules-Catalonia-independence-vote-illegal.jpg\" alt=\"Spanish court rules Catalonia independence vote illegal\" width=\"610\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Spanish-court-rules-Catalonia-independence-vote-illegal.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Spanish-court-rules-Catalonia-independence-vote-illegal-280x173.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Spanish-court-rules-Catalonia-independence-vote-illegal-580x360.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/>Spain&#8217;s Constitutional Court has declared that Catalonia&#8217;s independence vote last November was illegal.<\/h1>\n<p>More than two million Catalans took part in the symbolic vote for the region&#8217;s independence on Nov. 9, which Spain&#8217;s authorities later claimed was a &#8220;complete failure&#8221; and vowed to sue Catalonia for going against a decision of the Constitutional Court.<\/p>\n<p>The court ruled on Wednesday that such referenda could only be held if Spanish government allows them.<\/p>\n<p>Artur Mas, the president of the Catalan Government, said after the court&#8217;s decision: &#8220;The only legal way for Catalans to decide their future is in a parliamentary election in September 27.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Spain was ready to negotiate with Catalonia through legal means, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said in parliament on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of Catalonia&#8217;s 7.5 million inhabitants support an official vote on independence(Anadolu Agency).<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain&#8217;s Constitutional Court has declared that Catalonia&#8217;s independence vote last November was illegal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,17,101,14],"tags":[12135,11106,11097,36983,37497,19711,519,76344,75024],"class_list":["post-56722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-europe","category-politics","category-world","tag-catalan","tag-catalans","tag-catalonia","tag-catalonia-spain","tag-catalonia-state","tag-mariano-rajoy","tag-spain","tag-spanish-prime-minister","tag-spanish-prime-minister-mariano-rajoy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}