The butterfly flaps its wings, via the FT:
More than 2m people defied Spanish government attempts to halt Catalonia’s referendum on Sunday, with 90 per cent of those who voted backing independence, according to the regional government.
Late on Sunday, Jordi Turull, the Catalan government spokesman, released preliminary results showing that 2.26m votes had been counted, representing about 40 per cent of the 5.4m eligible voters. Carles Puigdemont, the Catalan president, said the region’s citizens had “earned the right to have an independent state”.
