Barcelona Demonstrators Call for Elections

On Sunday, pro-independence demonstrators gathered in Barcelona's Catalunya Square to pressure Catalonian President Artur Mas to call elections within the next three months.

"President, call elections, we want to vote within the next three months. We want to begin the spring of 2015 with a newly constituted parliament," said the President of the Catalan National Assembly Carme Forcadell, before a crowd of some 110,000 people.

The demonstration began with the reading of the Declaration of Sovereignty of Catalonia approved by the parliament January 2013. The document defines Catalonia as a sovereign political and legal subject with the right to self-determination.

Forcadell called for another large demonstration on November 9, the day that Catalonia's non-binding independence referendum was scheduled for before being delayed by a Spanish Court.

"We want 9-N to be addressed as a first round of the plebiscite. Nothing nor anyone will stop this country from being independent because this is what the majority of its citizens want," affirmed Forcadell.