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| Puigdemont: Spanish king ignored millions of Catalans | Puigdemont: Spanish king ignored millions of Catalans |
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| Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont has attacked Spain's King Felipe VI for "deliberately ignoring millions of Catalans". | Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont has attacked Spain's King Felipe VI for "deliberately ignoring millions of Catalans". |
| In a TV address, Mr Puigdemont accused the king of adopting the Spanish government's position. | In a TV address, Mr Puigdemont accused the king of adopting the Spanish government's position. |
| "This moment calls for mediation," he said. He has indicated that Catalonia could declare independence next week. | "This moment calls for mediation," he said. He has indicated that Catalonia could declare independence next week. |
| King Felipe made his own TV address on Tuesday night, calling Sunday's Catalan referendum illegal and undemocratic. | King Felipe made his own TV address on Tuesday night, calling Sunday's Catalan referendum illegal and undemocratic. |
| Twenty-four hours later, Mr Puigdemont claimed that the king had rejected a moderating role granted to him by the Spanish constitution. | Twenty-four hours later, Mr Puigdemont claimed that the king had rejected a moderating role granted to him by the Spanish constitution. |
| More on the Catalan crisis | More on the Catalan crisis |
| Mr Puigdemont told the BBC on Tuesday that he would declare independence "at the end of this week or the beginning of next". | |
| The Catalan government has said there will be an extraordinary meeting of parliament on Monday to discuss the outcome of the disputed referendum. | |
| While Catalan officials put the vote in support of independence at nearly 90%, final results have not yet been released. The turnout has been estimated as 42%. | |
| In his statement on Wednesday evening, Mr Puigdemont did not give any further details of a possible declaration of independence. | |
| Switching to Spanish from Catalan, he thanked Spanish citizens who had sent their "solidarity" to Catalonia. | |
| The Catalan leader has previously called for mediation, but the Spanish government has rejected any involvement of third parties. | |
| What happened on Sunday? | |
| Nearly 900 people were hurt as police violently tried to enforce a Spanish court order suspending the vote, which the government had declared illegal. | |
| Some police officers were seen firing rubber bullets, storming into polling stations and pulling women by their hair. | |
| Thirty-three police officers were also injured, local medical officials said. | |
| Shocked by what they had seen, hundreds of thousands of Catalans joined street protests on Tuesday. A general strike was also called in protest at "the grave violation of rights and freedoms" seen during the ballot. | |
| 'We need a king like Jon Snow' | |
| By Patrick Jackson, BBC News, Girona | |
| It was a rare public attack on the Spanish monarch but King Felipe himself, symbol of national unity, seldom addresses the country on TV, and President Puigdemont had to respond. | |
| At a bar in the Catalan leader's home region, they clapped respectfully afterwards, happy with their leader and his call for mediation, and then they joked about the Game of Thrones TV series. | |
| "We need a king like Jon Snow who tries to keep his lands together and is with the people," said one woman, laughing. | |
| Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, by common agreement, was the Night King, wishing eternal winter on Catalonia. | |
| "I want a Spain that cares for all its cultures," she added more seriously. "Why not love them all? We don't understand the speech of Felipe VI." |