Regional police in northeastern Catalonia have received orders from superiors to clear out polling stations by 6 a.m. Sunday to prevent the Catalan government's planned referendum on independence from Spain from taking place.

An internal memo sent Friday by force chief Major Josep Lluis Trapero that The Associated Press has seen says a police patrol is to visit every one of the 2,315 polling stations and will confiscate ballot boxes and electoral papers and shut down the station.
It said officers should not use instruments such as batons and only use force to accompany people out of the polling stations if necessary.
It said the measure was in line with a court order for the regional police and other security forces to ensure that the vote, which Spain says is illegal, does not take place.
How the 17,000 Catalan regional police respond to this order is regarded as key to the success or failure of the planned vote.

French President Emmanuel Macron is standing firmly behind the central government in Spain in its dispute with the Catalonia region over an independence vote.
Macron said at the end of a European Union summit Friday: "I respect a simple principle — We don't have lessons to give, one member state to another."
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy missed the event because of the domestic crisis surrounding the Catalan vote planned for Sunday.
Macron said: "I have confidence in the determination of Mariano Rajoy to defend the interest of all of Spain."

A senior European Union official says people should respect the constitution and rule of law in their countries — comments that come ahead of Sunday's planned referendum on independence in Spain's Catalonia region.
European Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans says Friday that the way any EU nation's people organize themselves "should done in accordance with the constitution of that member state."
He said: "That is the rule of law — you abide by the law and the constitution even if you don't like it."
Catalan politicians have pushed to hold the independence vote for the northeastern region against the wishes of the central government in Madrid and against the ruling of Spain's Constitutional Court.
European Union officials have ruled out helping to mediate the clash between Spain's government and Catalan officials over Catalonia's upcoming independence referendum.
European Parliament President Antonio Tajani said at an EU summit in Estonia on Friday that the dispute is "a Spanish problem in which we can do little. It's a problem of respecting Spanish laws that Spaniards have to resolve."
Catalan officials, including the mayor of Barcelona, have asked the EU to mediate the tense standoff ahead of Sunday's planned vote that Spanish authorities say is illegal.
Tajani says the EU is maintaining its support of Spain's government because "on a legal level, Madrid is right."
He says: "I think it's important to talk on a political level after Monday."
The EU has said Catalonia will be ejected from the bloc, if it declares independence.


http://www.nydailynews.com/newswires/news/world/latest-catalan-police-told-clear-polling-places-article-1.3529896

Why are people afraid of secession?

hi djjemkdlj

moninuola65:
Regional police in northeastern Catalonia have received orders from superiors to clear out polling stations by 6 a.m. Sunday to prevent the Catalan government's planned referendum on independence from Spain from taking place.

An internal memo sent Friday by force chief Major Josep Lluis Trapero that The Associated Press has seen says a police patrol is to visit every one of the 2,315 polling stations and will confiscate ballot boxes and electoral papers and shut down the station.
It said officers should not use instruments such as batons and only use force to accompany people out of the polling stations if necessary.
It said the measure was in line with a court order for the regional police and other security forces to ensure that the vote, which Spain says is illegal, does not take place.
How the 17,000 Catalan regional police respond to this order is regarded as key to the success or failure of the planned vote.

French President Emmanuel Macron is standing firmly behind the central government in Spain in its dispute with the Catalonia region over an independence vote.
Macron said at the end of a European Union summit Friday: "I respect a simple principle — We don't have lessons to give, one member state to another."
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy missed the event because of the domestic crisis surrounding the Catalan vote planned for Sunday.
Macron said: "I have confidence in the determination of Mariano Rajoy to defend the interest of all of Spain."

A senior European Union official says people should respect the constitution and rule of law in their countries — comments that come ahead of Sunday's planned referendum on independence in Spain's Catalonia region.
European Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans says Friday that the way any EU nation's people organize themselves "should done in accordance with the constitution of that member state."
He said: "That is the rule of law — you abide by the law and the constitution even if you don't like it."
Catalan politicians have pushed to hold the independence vote for the northeastern region against the wishes of the central government in Madrid and against the ruling of Spain's Constitutional Court.
European Union officials have ruled out helping to mediate the clash between Spain's government and Catalan officials over Catalonia's upcoming independence referendum.
European Parliament President Antonio Tajani said at an EU summit in Estonia on Friday that the dispute is "a Spanish problem in which we can do little. It's a problem of respecting Spanish laws that Spaniards have to resolve."
Catalan officials, including the mayor of Barcelona, have asked the EU to mediate the tense standoff ahead of Sunday's planned vote that Spanish authorities say is illegal.
Tajani says the EU is maintaining its support of Spain's government because "on a legal level, Madrid is right."
He says: "I think it's important to talk on a political level after Monday."
The EU has said Catalonia will be ejected from the bloc, if it declares independence.


http://www.nydailynews.com/newswires/news/world/latest-catalan-police-told-clear-polling-places-article-1.3529896

Yoruba's and Hausa are just using this to console theirsef.

AroOkigbo:
Why are people afraid of secession?

is secession is anything to be afraid of now?
an out-dated
issue!
ask kurdistan!

moninuola65:

is secession is anything to be afraid of now?
an out-dated
issue!
ask kurdistan!

Or Malaysia

AroOkigbo:


Or Malaysia

Malaysia achieved its independence in 1957!

I don't know why parasites are always afraid of secession. Catalonia dey work baboons dey chop for center. All Spanish players 95% are from Catalonia.

beamtopola:

Yoruba's and Hausa are just using this to console theirsef.

sorrow the bereaved!

Some terrorists won't like this because they can relate it to what happened in Umuahia some days ago.

nototribalist:
I don't know why parasites are always afraid of secession. Catalonia dey work baboons dey chop for center. All Spanish players 95% are from Catalonia.

Please help them get their country, they'd appreciate you so much

Waiting for the Spanish army to shoot them down.

shallysgirl:
Waiting for the Spanish army to shoot them down.

come on Spain is not a zoozm

This is the mistake Nigeria does not want to make

Kill the spark lest it becomes an inferno.

shallysgirl:
Waiting for the Spanish army to shoot them down.

Catalonians won't behave like some terrorists we have here, they will know when to back off.

Igbos:
This is the mistake Nigeria does not want to make

Kill the spark lest it becomes an inferno.

Sure, Nigeria must avoid the mistake Spain initially made

moninuola65:

Malaysia achieved its independence in 1957!

therefore?

nototribalist:
I don't know why parasites are always afraid of secession. Catalonia dey work baboons dey chop for center. All Spanish players 95% are from Catalonia.

The Madrid Autonomous Community is wealthier per capita than Catalonia, and they're not complaining. Spain is made up of 50 provinces in 17 autonomous regions and they practice something much closer to true Federalism.

And 95% of Spanish players are not from Catalonia. Stop talking nonsense. Only few players like Pique, Busquets and Fabregas are from there. Many of the Barca players like Iniesta who people think are from Catalonia are from other regions.

IPOB can see that countries like Spain, France, the EU, UK can never support any secession.
Russia, China have territorial issues with their neighbours already, the US doesn't even have any secession clause in its constitution and has the UK as its closest ally so would want to be in the UK's good books.
So which super power is in support?
Israel is still building on their occupied territories and wanting to expand even more after several UN interventions.

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beamtopola:

Yoruba's and Hausa are just using this to console theirsef.

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Where did you see Yoruba or Hausa in the write up?

Yyeske:
IPOB can see that countries like Spain, France, the EU, UK can never support any secession.
Russia, China have territorial issues with their neighbours already, the US doesn't even have any secession clause in its constitution and has the UK as its closest ally so would want to be in the UK's good books.
So which super power is in support?
Israel is still building on their occupied territories and wanting to expand even more after several UN interventions.

North Korea. We have the backing of Pyongyang - ipob "yoot".

AroOkigbo:

therefore?

many countries exercised The Self determination right to put and end to colonialism around 1900, and the sovereign border traced.
That right had ceased function since then!
agitating for new state on the existing one now is bloody ignorant, and stupidity!
it can never come!

nototribalist:
I don't know why parasites are always afraid of secession. Catalonia dey work baboons dey chop for center. All Spanish players 95% are from Catalonia.

Where did you learnt the coloured part from?

The EU countries have spoken in one accord:

Respect the constitution of your country?

If you find fault with your constitution, amend it in a democratic way.

I hope the IPOB terrorists that are disturbing EU over an African matter will someday wake up from their zombied delusions.

IdisuleOurOwn:


North Korea. We have the backing of Pyongyang - ipob "yoot".

Lol, they can add Iran as well.
These guys tire me with their IPOB wahala.

Throwback:
The EU countries have spoken in one accord:

Respect the constitution if your country?

If you find fault with your constitution, amend it in a democratic way.

I hope the IPOB terrorists that are disturbing EU over an African matter will someday wake up from their zombied delusions.

Was this not what we have being telling them since but unfortunately IPOB must reason for them

moninuola65:

many countries exercised The Self determination right to put and end to colonialism around 1900, and the sovereign border traced.
That right had ceased function since then!
agitating for new state on the existing one now is bloody ignorant, and stupidity!
it can never come!

Namibia gained independence from South Africa on 21 March 1990.
South Sudan gained independence from Sudan on 9 July 2011.

Right to self determination is recognized in the UN charter.
Only parasites are afraid of secession, the host is never!

Yyeske:
Was this not what we have being telling them since but unfortunately IPOB must reason for them

let them continue wasting their money and live for nothing

AroOkigbo:


Namibia gained independence from South Africa on 21 March 1990.
South Sudan gained independence from Sudan on 9 July 2011.

Right to self determination is recognized in the UN charter.
Only parasites are afraid of secession, the host is never!

who tell you Namibia and Sudan gained independence in peace, each of them fought a bloody war for nearly 30 years!

AroOkigbo:


Namibia gained independence from South Africa on 21 March 1990.
South Sudan gained independence from Sudan on 9 July 2011.

Right to self determination is recognized in the UN charter.
Only parasites are afraid of secession, the host is never!

Was Namibia a region of SouthAfrica that latter broke away or was it a separate country colonised by the Germans but was later put under administration by SouthAfrica and Britain?

It is wont for IPOB zombies to always compare apples to oranges.

Soldiers everywhere even in banks, markets, ceremonies etc. I even saw a guy who was bundled into into their truck at Odume Obosi layout while going to the ATM along old road Nkpor, he was one of the terrorists. Flash anything Biafra and see the python sing and dance.
IPOB terrorists causing problems everywhere

Throwback:


Was Namibia a region of SouthAfrica that latter broke away or was it a separate country colonised by the Germans but was later put under administration by SouthAfrica and Britain?

It is wont for IPOB zombies to always compare apples to oranges.

leave him a lost dog won't hear the whistle of hunter!