{"id":76958,"date":"2016-06-06T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T05:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=76958"},"modified":"2016-06-06T01:00:36","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T05:00:36","slug":"spains-basque-country-moves-closer-independence-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/06\/06\/spains-basque-country-moves-closer-independence-referendum\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain\u2019s Basque country moves closer to independence referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_76961\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76961\" style=\"width: 1265px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Plaza_de_la_Virgen_Blanca_en_Vitoria-Gasteiz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-76961\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Plaza_de_la_Virgen_Blanca_en_Vitoria-Gasteiz.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Guyletsbuild - Own work, CC0.\" width=\"1265\" height=\"826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Plaza_de_la_Virgen_Blanca_en_Vitoria-Gasteiz.jpg 1265w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Plaza_de_la_Virgen_Blanca_en_Vitoria-Gasteiz-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Plaza_de_la_Virgen_Blanca_en_Vitoria-Gasteiz-768x501.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Plaza_de_la_Virgen_Blanca_en_Vitoria-Gasteiz-1024x669.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1265px) 100vw, 1265px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-76961\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=14535215\" target=\"_blank\">Guyletsbuild &#8211; Own work, CC0.<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MADRID\u2014Spain\u2019s autonomous Basque Country made a step closer to an independence referendum on Sunday after tens of thousands backed secession in a regional poll, organizers said.<\/p>\n<p>The vote was initiated by Gure Esku Dago (It&#8217;s in our hands) group, the organizers told RIA Novosti. Around 37,000 voted in the poll that was conducted in 34 municipalities. The region\u2019s total population is over 2 million.<\/p>\n<p>Slightly over 95 percent of those sampled said &#8220;yes&#8221; to whether they wanted to be citizens of a sovereign\/ independent Basque Country.<\/p>\n<p>The group\u2019s leaders, Angel Oiarbide and Zelai Nikol\u00e1s, praised the vote as &#8220;historic,&#8221; saying it was &#8220;the first step to a referendum.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are on the way toward a referendum. And we will continue working in this direction. Today is a historic day,&#8221; the organization said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Basque Country has followed in the footsteps of Catalonia, a well-off Spanish region which has held dozens of local votes on whether it should leave Spain in the past years. Madrid has called all of them unconstitutional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MADRID\u2014Spain\u2019s autonomous Basque Country made a step closer to an independence referendum on Sunday after tens of thousands backed secession &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":76961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[11085,4861,4478],"class_list":["post-76958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-basque-country","tag-referendum","tag-spain","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}