correspondent pablo farley ileus is in barcelona and now joins us with the latest what's the situation in buffalo not a people there able to vote. well the situation across the region is that a lot of people are turning up and they're attempting to vote they're managing to do so in some of the polling stations and others they're not because they've been cleared or closed by the police and the regional police attempted to close some of the stations the polling stations and then they had the backup of the national police because spain at the end of the day has a bit of a sort of a confusing police situation there's essentially three police or four police forces so the situation is that there's long queues of people turning up the polling stations across the region so we're getting in and some aren't. i just to get some context this vote is so controversial can you tell us why it's so contested. well the spanish government in madrid claims that this vote is unconstitutional because it goes against the constitution of spain does not permit a referendum like this and that the guideline regi