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Protests Against Madrid's Decisions In The Basque Country

© AFP 2017 / Ander Gillenea

Protests against Madrid's handling of the Catalan crisis spread to another Spanish region on Saturday, as the streets of the northern city of Bilbao in the Basque Country were awash with protestors waving umbrellas, DW reports.

According to the regional paper Naiz, some 44,000 people took part in the rally, which was called by several Basque Country pro-independence groups, the ultra-left wing party Podemos' regional branch and several labor unions.

Some protesters carried a banner which read "No to 155. Democracy and right to decide," in reference to Article 155 of Spain's Constitution, which Madrid triggered a week ago to suspend Catalonia's regional autonomy.


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