Following the Catalan parliament's earlier vote on Friday, in which it made the decision to announce the region's independence from Spain, the government in Madrid fired the cabinet. 

"We believe it is urgent to listen to Catalan citizens, to all of them, so that they can decide their future and nobody can act outside the law on their behalf," Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said in a televised speech, as cited by Reuters.

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