Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is holding talks with the Catalunya President Artur Mas in Madrid on Wednesday.<br /><br />Their meeting is seen as the last chance to resolve a bitter dispute over Catalunya’s plans to hold a referendum on independence in November.<br /><br />Rajoy considers any referendum illegal and violating Spain’s Constitution, drawn up in 1978. <br /><br />Mas insists he can’t negotiate until Madrid allows Catalans a right to self-determination.<br /><br />A recent opinion poll shows more than 62 percent of Spaniards think the Constitution should be reformed to devolve more power to the country’s 17 regions<br /><br />The meeting comes hot on the heels of revelations that the former president of Catalunya and founder of modern Catalan nationalism, Jordi Pujol, held a fortune in undeclared money in secret foreign bank accounts for decades. <br /><br />Pro-independence sentiment in Catalonia has grown greatly in recent years, with many Catalans feeling they deserves better economic and political treatment from Madrid.
