MADRID (MarketWatch) — Catalan President Carles Puigdemont, in a highly anticipated address before the regional parliament in Barcelona, said he was “accepting the mandate” of the chaotic Oct. 1 referendum on Catalonia’s secession from Spain but would suspend the prospect of declaring independence in favor of dialogue with the central government in Madrid. In his nationally televised speech, Puigdemont said those who had pushed for independence were “neither criminals nor crazy people.” The people of Catalonia, or Catalunya in the local language, “have nothing against Spain or Spanish people,” Puigdemont said.
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