Quim Torra, the head of the Catalan regional government, told Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez that 80 percent of the residents of Catalonia supported the region’s right for self-determination and its existence in the form of a republic.
“Eighty percent support exercising the right for self-determination at a coordinated binding referendum; 80 percent are against political repressions; 80 percent support republican Catalonia without the Spanish monarchy,” Torra said during the event, as quoted in a statement, released by the Catalan regional government.
Sanchez, in his turn, has called for abandoning confrontation and engaging in dialogue between the Spanish central authorities and the Catalan regional government.