Three quarters of Catalans want independence vote, survey reveals

Three out of every four Catalans are in favor of holding a poll to decide on independence for Spain’s richest region, according to a survey published on the 10 October 2012 by the Catalan government’s Center for Opinion Studies.

The news came as Spain's Education Minister José Ignacio Wert stirred the nationalist nest in Catalonia by saying the central government wanted to 'Hispanicize Catalan students' with the end of making them 'feel as proud as being Spaniards as Catalans'.

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