Catalonia's leader is calling for international mediation to solve the political deadlock over the Catalan independence referendum.
Carles Puigdemont also called on Spain's national police reinforcements to leave the northeastern region, a day after the vote on whether Catalonia should secede from Spain led to violence as police moved to stop voting.
He said the regional government will investigate responsibilities in rights violations.
Puigdemont called for the European Union to consider Catalonia's desire to break away from Spain as a regional problem, and urged Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's government to accept mediation.
The Catalan president says the regional parliament will be carrying out in the next days the mandate to declare independence in the light of the "yes" victory in the referendum.
Spain's government says the referendum was illegal and that results lack any validity.
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