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Catalonia: "Informal vote" instead of referendum

BARCELONA -- The Catalans have postponed their referendum on independence scheduled for November 9, and will instead on that day "hold an informal vote."

Catalonia does not have the right to call a referendum on independence, Spain's Constitutional Court said.

The Spanish autonomous region has declared it would hold a referendum on November 9 regardless of what the government in Madrid thinks of the vote.