Catalan independence declaration 'will lead to nothing' - Rajoy

Madrid, Oct 7, 2017 (AFP)  - Spain's central government will make sure that any independence declaration on the part of Catalonia won't have any effect, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy told daily newspaper El Pais.

"The government will ensure that any declaration of independence will lead to nothing," he said in his first newspaper interview since a banned independence held in Catalonia on October 1.