A man is silhouetted in front of an Estelada (Catalan separatist flag) in Ripoll town, north of Barcelona, Spain, August 20, 2017. REUTERS/Albert Gea
BARCELONA (Reuters) - Barcelona's mayor has asked for reassurances that municipal staff would not face legal action or lose their jobs if they helped to organise an Oct. 1 referendum on Catalonia seceding from Spain.
However, some of the region's nearly 1,000 mayors have already said they would go ahead with the vote, despite it being declared illegal by Madrid.
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