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Catalonia to declare immediate independence if 'yes' wins referendum
• france24.com"If the majority of votes are for creating a Catalan republic, obviously independence will have to be declared immediately," said Gabriela Serra, a member of the separatist coalition that governs Catalonia.
Her comments came as the coalition presented a law aimed at extracting the northeastern region from Spain's legal system in a bid to circumvent all legal and practical challenges to organising a referendum -- a move that will deepen tensions with Madrid.
The law will be submitted to a vote in the Catalan regional parliament, where separatists hold a majority, at the end of August.
Lluis Corominas, another regional lawmaker from the coalition, announced the law would "prevail" over other rules in place.