Barcelona - Catalonia’s separatists were planning their response on Sunday after Spain took drastic steps to stop the region breaking away by dissolving its separatist government and forcing new elections. Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont and his regional executive — who sparked Spain’s worst political crisis in decades by holding a banned independence referendum on October 1 — will be stripped of their jobs and their ministries taken over under measures announced on Saturday by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. "Yesterday, there was a fully-fledged coup against Catalan institutions," Catalan government spokesman Jordi Turull said on Sunday. "What happens now, with everyone in agreement and unity, is that we will announce what we will do and how," Turull told Catalunya Radio. Rajoy has taken Spain into uncharted legal waters by moving to wrest back powers from the semi-autonomous region, which could see Madrid take control of the Catalan police force and replace its public media chiefs....
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