Spain's government said Tuesday it was "not possible" to grant the Catalonia region powers of self-determination, snubbing the demands of Catalan leaders after more than two million people took part in a symbolic independence vote.
"The right to self-determination that you demand is not possible, neither under our constitution nor in any of the other democracies around us," Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria told a Catalan nationalist lawmaker in parliament.