This is stated in a Twitter message on the page of the authorities of the Spanish Autonomous Community.

As noted, law enforcement agencies closed 1300 of 2315 schools in Catalonia, where it was planned to organize a vote on the independence of the region. In this regard, supporters of the referendum took 163 schools. In addition, in some areas there is also a technical problem.

The referendum participants will have to answer the question: "Do you want Catalonia to become an independent state with a republican form of government?".

By the way, before the start of voting in the referendum on the independence of Catalonia, thousands of people gathered at polling stations.

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, since early September in the world's media was actively emerging news about the holding in Spain of a referendum on the separation of the region of Catalonia from the main state. And, it would seem that these events have a purely local and insignificant to the world character, which is only rarely seen in the running news line.