Catalan poll: 80% want a mutually agreed independence referendum with Spain

  • Such a vote is backed by 61% of unionists and 97% of independence supporters

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VilaWeb / Catalan News Agency
17.12.2018 - 08:35
Actualització: 17.12.2018 - 09:35

A large majority of Catalans want a referendum on independence in agreement with Spain, with support standing at 80.4%, according to a poll by Catalana newspaper Ara. The agreed vote draws support from most pro-independence supporters (97%) and unionists (61%), including 71% of citizens who voted for Spain’s ruling Socialist party in the last Catalan election.

In a belligerent parliamentary speech last week, Spanish president Pedro Sánchez urged pro-independence parties to make a proposal backed by at least 75% of all Catalans, suggesting that an agreed referendum on independence did not have enough supports.

Even a fraction of voters from the two forces with a hardest stance against independence, Ciutadans and People’s Party, would support a mutually agreed referendum: 34.4% and 23.7%.

Still, only 58% of lawmakers in the Catalan parliament demand an independence referendum in agreement with Spain, as the rejection of this possibility is unanimous among unionist MPs.

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