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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Catalans vote in symbolic independence referendum AFP - Monday, December 14 Send IM Story Print A woman walks past a banner in support of a referendum for the independence of Catalonia in the city of Vic on December 11. People in Catalonia were voting in symbolic referendums that organisers hope will be a first step toward eventual independence from Spain for the wealthy northeastern region. BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) - – People in Catalonia voted in symbolic referendums on Sunday that organisers hope will be a first step toward eventual independence from Spain for the wealthy northeastern region. Some 700,000 Catalan residents, or almost 10 percent of its population, in 166 towns and villages were called on to answer the question: "Do you agree that Catalonia becomes a social, democratic and independent state, and member of the European Union?". The polls, organised by local associations and supported by some political parties and unions, are non-binding as Spain's constitution only allows referendums if they are mandated by the central government. Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said in Brussels on Friday that the referendums "are not going anywhere." But organisers hope that a result in favour of independence, and with a turnout of at least 40 percent, will push the issue up the political agenda throughout Spain. Further referendums are already planned in other parts of the region, including the capital of Barcelona, and the cities of Girona and Lleida, early next year. A sizeable minority in Catalonia would already like to see the region, which accounts for 25 percent of Spain's gross domestic product and which has its own Catalan language, achieve independence from Spain. "Catalonia is dying, they are killing it and we must react," Joan Laporta, the chairman of Barcelona football club, told the newspaper El Pais Sunday. "No Catalan can accept the fiscal pillaging that we are suffering nor the attacks on the rights and freedoms of Catalonia," he said. In a referendum last September in the small town of Arenys de Munt, 96 percent of residents voted in favour of Catalan independence. Turnout was 41 percent. On Saturday, Sant Jaume de Frontanya, the smallest village in Catalonia, held an early referendum, with 18 of its 21 registered voters backing independence. Sunday's vote also comes as Spain's Constitutional Court prepares to rule on the legality of the region's statute of autonomy, with fears that a negative decision could fuel separatist sentiment. The statute, approved by the Spanish parliament and endorsed by Catalan voters in a 2006 referendum, expanded the powers of the regional government, which, like other Spanish regions, already controlled most aspects of government. The statute has the support of the vast majority of political parties in the region, and they have threatened to stage massive street demonstrations if any changes are made to it. A rejection of the statute "would be an unacceptable humiliation for Catalans," said Laporta. Teams of international observers from regions of the world with independence or secessionist movements are attending Sunday's vote. They include a representative of the Scottish National Party, Christopher White, a member of Ireland's Catholic republican Sinn Fein party, Joe Reilly, and others from Italy's South Tyrol region, the French island of Corsica, Belgium's Flemish region and from the province of Quebec in Canada. Also observing the vote are political representatives from Spain's Galicia and Basque regions, which both have independence movements. Polls opened at 9 am (0800 GMT) and were scheduled to close at 8 pm (1900GMT). 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