'Final Catalan vote count shows 90 pc backed independence'

AFP  |  Barcelona 

Final from Catalonia's outlawed independence referendum showed that 90 per cent of voters backed the region breaking away from Spain, the Catalan said today.

A full count of the from last Sunday's vote published online showed that 2,044,038 of the 2,286,217 people who took part voted for independence, with a turnout of 43 per cent.

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First Published: Fri, October 06 2017. 23:02 IST